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Sentenced To Life · Black Breath

Sentenced To Life · Black Breath
EXERCISE 34 OF 34
Play the whole song with the record
100 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 104 BARS LIT
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJSFQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sentenced To Life on drums

104 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
65/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-17, silence through bars 18-19, snare through bars 20-30, hi-hat through bars 31-36 and snare through bars 37-54, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-28, 31-32 and 35, and 4 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Sentenced To Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 29, 30, 33, 34 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-69 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 67-73 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Sentenced To Life?

170 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 Sentenced To Life hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 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 Sentenced To Life?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 29, 30, 33, 34 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED