Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies · Biffy Clyro

209 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 100, 104 and 106, and 9 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
LIVING IS A PROBLEM BECAUSE EVERYTHING DIES · BAR 100
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 88, 99, 105, 121, 137, 148 and 5 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 121 · LANDS ON BAR 122
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 199 · LANDS ON BAR 200 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

209 bars across 31 sections: 134 keep time, 11 are fills, 3 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 165-177.

CHORUS 2
PART S12
PART E
PART L
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
18 groovesALOEH+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies?

170 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 Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Is A Problem Because Everything Dies?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 88, 99, 105, 121, 137, 148 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED
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