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Midlife Crisis · Faith No More

EXERCISE 3 OF 38
Groove F -- Outro 2
51 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFOLAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Midlife Crisis on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-30, ride through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-62, ride through bars 63-69 and toms through bars 70-71, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
T1 |----------x-----|
T2 |--------------x-|
BD |x-----xxx-------|
Midlife Crisis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-36 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-66 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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