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EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 55 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Living For Tonight on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
53/100

kick and crashes through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-123.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-16 and 18-24, and 7 more places -- 44.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 35, 36, 62, 63, 86, 87 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Living For Tonight?

135 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 Living For Tonight hard to play on drums?

53 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Living For Tonight?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 35, 36, 62, 63, 86, 87 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED