Mi Vida · DLD

155 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-20, 37-70 and 87-143, and 1 more place -- 74.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 138 BPM
MI VIDA · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 78, 144 and 153.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 144 · LANDS ON BAR 145 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 6 sections: 60 keep time, 3 are fills, 77 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-35.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mi Vida?

138 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 Mi Vida hard to play on drums?

40 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Mi Vida?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 78, 144 and 153.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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