My Life For Hire · A Day To Remember

127 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 18-25 and 28-30, and 7 more places -- 54% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
MY LIFE FOR HIRE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 26, 27, 31, 58, 59, 63 and 9 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 99-103 · LANDS ON BAR 104 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 11 sections: 92 keep time, 15 are fills, 7 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-79.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART P
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBPDLT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Life For Hire?

145 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 For Hire hard to play on drums?

51 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 For Hire?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 26, 27, 31, 58, 59, 63 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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