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That Was Just Your Life · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove I -- Chorus 3
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PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART M
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
CHORUS 8
OUTRO
10 groovesIAMKJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play That Was Just Your Life on drums

296 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 14:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
296
LENGTH
14:04
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-32, silence through bars 33-35, snare through bars 36-39, hi-hat through bars 40-51, snare through bars 52-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-87, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-51, 72-74 and 92-94, and 12 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
That Was Just Your Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 25, 27, 63, 71, 91, 95 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- I, K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-52 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-71 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-89 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 121-292 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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?

58 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

296 bars, about 14:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in That Was Just Your Life?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 25, 27, 63, 71, 91, 95 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 296 BARS ANALYSED