Living For Tomorrow · Scorpions

154 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-20 and 22-28, and 14 more places -- 82.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
LIVING FOR TOMORROW · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 151, 152 and 153.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 151-153 · LANDS ON BAR 154 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 2 sections: 144 keep time, 3 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-148.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Living For Tomorrow?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Living For Tomorrow hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Living For Tomorrow?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 151, 152 and 153.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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