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Live Free or Die · Formal Awful Panic

Live Free or Die · Formal Awful Panic
EXERCISE 8 OF 37
Fill at bar 9 and 108
90 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEHMAK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Live Free or Die on drums

130 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-26, hi-hat through bars 27-51, ride through bars 52-62, hi-hat through bars 63-75 and snare through bars 76-93, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-25, 77-92 and 109-122 -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x-------x-|
Live Free or Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 7, 9, 75, 76 and 108.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-50 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 47-63 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-101 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Live Free or Die?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Live Free or Die hard to play on drums?

55 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Live Free or Die?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 7, 9, 75, 76 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED