The Good Life · Weezer

132 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-13, 23-30 and 52-54, and 1 more place -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
THE GOOD LIFE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 45, 69, 70, 78, 85, 86 and 8 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 85-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 15 sections: 87 keep time, 14 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-63.

PART C
PART D
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART U
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesGCDRA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Good Life?

135 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 The Good Life hard to play on drums?

55 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 45, 69, 70, 78, 85, 86 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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