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So Called Life · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 5 OF 52
Groove Z -- Part Z
24 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
PART S2
PART C
CHORUS
PART S5
CHORUS 2
BREAK 6
PART H
PART Z
OUTRO
13 groovesGHS5CZ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Called Life on drums

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.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
38/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, silence through bars 6-10, hi-hat through bars 11-13, snare through bars 14-15, hi-hat through bars 16-20 and snare through bars 21-24, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-------------|
So Called Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- H, F -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 9-28 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-52 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-69 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 86-108 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 89-101 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 99-113 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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