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Time For Livin' · Beastie Boys

EXERCISE 4 OF 19
Run D1 · Chorus (bars 9-32)
55 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Time For Livin' on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-72, silence through bars 73-76 and ride through bars 77-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x---x-x-x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x---------------|
Time For Livin' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D, H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 37-73 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 76-88 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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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