To Lose My Life · White Lies

100 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-33 and 44-59 -- 48% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
TO LOSE MY LIFE · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 60, 61, 85 and 100.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 60-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 100
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 6 sections: 90 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-32.

CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
OUTRO
VERSE 3
3 groovesBDGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To Lose My 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 To Lose My Life hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 To Lose My Life?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 60, 61, 85 and 100.

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