Time For Livin' · Beastie Boys

95 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / Reggae150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 12 more places -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 175 BPM
TIME FOR LIVIN' · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 11 sections: 58 keep time, 24 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-72.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDHBGI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Time For Livin'?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Time For Livin' hard to play on drums?

46 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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