The Circle of A Life · Twice She Cried

230 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 148 BPM, 5:12 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-44, 46 and 48, and 2 more places -- 5.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 148 BPM
THE CIRCLE OF A LIFE · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 72-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 96-97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

261 bars across 26 sections: 84 keep time, 33 are fills, 59 are stops and 70 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-56.

PART B
PART F
PART T
CHORUS
PART AP
OUTRO 2
22 groovesXS26BFT+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Circle of A Life?

148 BPM, in 3/4, 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 The Circle of A Life hard to play on drums?

53 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 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 The Circle of A Life?

9 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED
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