Live Forever · Oasis

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-20 and 22-24, and 20 more places -- 57.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
LIVE FOREVER · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 59, 63, 67 and 85.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 4 sections: 90 keep time, 5 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-54.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Live Forever?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Live Forever hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Live Forever?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 59, 63, 67 and 85.

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