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We Live No More · Black Label Society

EXERCISE 14 OF 28
Groove L
55 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Live No More on drums

71 bars, 3:50, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
60/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-19, 21-24 and 33, and 7 more places -- 45.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-o-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx-------xxx-x--|
We Live No More -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 26, 39, 47, 53, 55 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is We Live No More?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is We Live No More hard to play on drums?

60 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in We Live No More?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 26, 39, 47, 53, 55 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED