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My Life For Hire · A Day To Remember

EXERCISE 28 OF 34
Groove T -- Outro
120 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART P
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBPDLT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Life For Hire on drums

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

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
51/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, snare through bars 26-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57 and snare through bars 58-113, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
My Life For Hire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-81 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Chorus 4 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 112-118 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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