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Lives · Daron Malakian And Scars On Broadway

Lives · Daron Malakian And Scars On Broadway
EXERCISE 18 OF 26
Run F1 · Chorus (bars 65-100)
95 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lives on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-76, snare through bars 77-100, hi-hat through bars 101-120, snare through bars 121-134 and hi-hat through bars 135-143.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-81 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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