← SONGS

Stolen Life · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove G -- Chorus
0 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART K
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGKHIB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stolen Life on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-57, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 22-24 and 42-48, and 3 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Stolen Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 21, 29, 33 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- G, K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-18 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-45 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-69 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-82 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part U -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Stolen Life?

154 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 Stolen Life hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Stolen Life?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 21, 29, 33 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED