My So Called Life · The Ataris

154 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-26 and 55-60 -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
MY SO CALLED LIFE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 27, 28, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 25 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 35-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 44-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 18 sections: 58 keep time, 31 are fills, 33 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART D
PART K
PART K
PART N
PART Z
BREAK 2
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAIDKOS16+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My So Called Life?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is My So Called Life hard to play on drums?

52 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 So Called Life?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 27, 28, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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