Wasted Life · Alexandre Belchior

65 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-21, 24-29 and 32-37, and 2 more places -- 84.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WASTED LIFE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars: 64 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-64.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wasted Life?

120 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 Wasted Life hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Wasted Life?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.

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