So Called Life · Three Days Grace

136 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 31 and 38, and 14 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
SO CALLED LIFE · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 89 and 13 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 64-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 89-90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 17 sections: 25 keep time, 19 are fills, 70 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-57.

PART S2
PART C
CHORUS
PART S5
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART Z
OUTRO
13 groovesGHS5CZ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is So Called Life?

160 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 So Called Life hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 So Called Life?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 89 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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