Story Of My Life · Social Distortion

285 bars at 203 BPM -- fast, and 5:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
203 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
285
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-40, 73-82 and 89-100, and 3 more places -- 54.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 203 BPM
STORY OF MY LIFE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 88 and 148.

LOOP · 203 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

285 bars across 12 sections: 200 keep time, 2 are fills, 78 are stops and 3 are silent.

CHORUS
PART C
PART C
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Story Of My Life?

203 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 Story Of My Life hard to play on drums?

57 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

285 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Story Of My Life?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 88 and 148.

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