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Range Life · Pavement

EXERCISE 10 OF 31
Groove G
117 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART C, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART B
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesABCKS10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Range Life on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, silence through bars 41-43, hi-hat through bars 44-88, ride through bars 89-91, silence through bars 92-94 and hi-hat through bars 95-135, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 26 more places -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Range Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 67, 90, 110, 118, 122 and 126.

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 -- A, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-40 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 67-110 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 69-84 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 81-122 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Range Life?

115 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 Range Life hard to play on drums?

47 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Range Life?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 67, 90, 110, 118, 122 and 126.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED