LIVING LA VIDA LOCA · Gummy

160 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 19 more places -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
LIVING LA VIDA LOCA · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 20, 22, 40, 70 and 9 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 10 sections: 130 keep time, 15 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 125-160.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDBKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is LIVING LA VIDA LOCA?

180 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 LA VIDA LOCA hard to play on drums?

62 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 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 LA VIDA LOCA?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 20, 22, 40, 70 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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