My Life · 12 Stones

59 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 25-27 and 29-31, and 4 more places -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 81 BPM
MY LIFE · BAR 14
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 24 and 58.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 8 sections: 44 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-57.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
5 groovesEBGS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Life?

81 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 My Life hard to play on drums?

53 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 My Life?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 24 and 58.

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