The Good Life · Three Days Grace

90 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 21-30, and 5 more places -- 62.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
THE GOOD LIFE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 56, 68, 85 and 89.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 11 sections: 19 keep time, 5 are fills, 51 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-18.

CHORUS
PART D
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBAMDG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Good Life?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Good Life hard to play on drums?

62 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Good Life?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 56, 68, 85 and 89.

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