My Life In The Knife Trade · Boysetsfire

133 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-24, 26-27 and 29-30, and 9 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 111 BPM
MY LIFE IN THE KNIFE TRADE · BARS 23-24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 46, 56, 57, 81, 116 and 124.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 9 sections: 89 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-36.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIBES1R+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Life In The Knife Trade?

111 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 In The Knife Trade 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 In The Knife Trade?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 46, 56, 57, 81, 116 and 124.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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