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This Is Your Life · Switchfoot

EXERCISE 11 OF 24
Join Chorus 2 to Part H (bars 66-68)
119 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART H
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHFS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Is Your Life on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-41, ride through bars 42-55, hi-hat through bars 56-67, ride through bars 68-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-98, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 16 more places -- 47.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-------x---x-|--x-x---------x-|
This Is Your Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 104, 105 and 113.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-59 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 64-98 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part S7 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is This Is Your Life?

130 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 This Is Your Life hard to play on drums?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 This Is Your Life?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 104, 105 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED