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Mi Vida · DLD

EXERCISE 10 OF 17
Run B1 · Chorus (bars 37-70)
141 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mi Vida on drums

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

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-20, hi-hat through bars 21-54, snare through bars 55-70, hi-hat through bars 71-104 and snare through bars 105-153, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Mi Vida -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 19-40 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 5 minutes.
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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