Midlife Crisis · Faith No More

116 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 33-35, and 4 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
MIDLIFE CRISIS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 16, 40, 48, 56, 72 and 3 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 8 sections: 92 keep time, 9 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-115.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFOLAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Midlife Crisis?

110 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 Midlife Crisis hard to play on drums?

55 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Midlife Crisis?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 16, 40, 48, 56, 72 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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