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My Life In The Knife Trade · Boysetsfire

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Life In The Knife Trade on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-91, silence through bars 92-99 and hi-hat through bars 100-133.

The beat

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.

    23               24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-xxx-x-x-x-|x-x-x-xxx-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|x------x--x-----|
My Life In The Knife Trade -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-91 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 90-108 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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