This Was My Life · Megadeth

123 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 42-44, and 3 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
THIS WAS MY LIFE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 16, 35, 37, 41, 49 and 6 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 12 sections: 94 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-90.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART O
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHDOUA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Was My Life?

136 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 Was My Life hard to play on drums?

54 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Was My Life?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 16, 35, 37, 41, 49 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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