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The Good Life · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 5 OF 32
Groove C
55 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Good Life on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-19, snare through bars 20-36, toms through bars 37-44 and snare through bars 45-67, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--------x--|
The Good Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-36 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-74 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED