Lust For Life · Iggy Pop

132 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 5:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and floor tom.

RockPunk90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-13 and 15-17, and 31 more places -- 68.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 103 BPM
LUST FOR LIFE · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 4 sections: 129 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-132.

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

Questions

What BPM is Lust For Life?

103 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 Lust For Life hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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