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The Good Life · Weezer

EXERCISE 4 OF 51
Groove D -- Part D
53 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART C
PART D
PART C
PART D
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Good Life on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-22, toms through bars 23-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-51, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
HF |x-------x-------|
The Good Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- C, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-40 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-84 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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