That Was Just Your Life. · MetallicA

293 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 13:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
293
LENGTH
13:56
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 53-59, and 27 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 84 BPM
THAT WAS JUST YOUR LIFE. · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 22, 24, 26, 28, 60, 68 and 14 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

293 bars across 23 sections: 194 keep time, 22 are fills, 53 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 190-203.

PART A
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART I
OUTRO
10 groovesKIANJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is That Was Just Your Life.?

84 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 That Was Just Your Life. hard to play on drums?

50 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

293 bars, about 13:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 That Was Just Your Life.?

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 22, 24, 26, 28, 60, 68 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 293 BARS ANALYSED
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