Try to Live · Burn Everything Down

205 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 47-61, 104-119 and 167-181 -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
TRY TO LIVE · BARS 47-48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 39, 43, 46, 88, 92 and 13 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

205 bars across 19 sections: 127 keep time, 20 are fills, 36 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-83.

PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AA
CHORUS 3
14 groovesMGCKAA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Try to Live?

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 Try to Live hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Try to Live?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 39, 43, 46, 88, 92 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED
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