Lives · Daron Malakian And Scars On Broadway

143 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24, 37-52 and 104, and 2 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 142 BPM
LIVES · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 36, 64, 70, 76, 80, 88 and 3 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 11 sections: 86 keep time, 9 are fills, 36 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFABCK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lives?

142 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 Lives hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Lives?

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 36, 64, 70, 76, 80, 88 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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