Welcome To My Life · Simple Plan

144 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkPop150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-23 and 44, and 9 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 173 BPM
WELCOME TO MY LIFE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 37, 43, 67, 79, 87 and 7 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 10 sections: 62 keep time, 13 are fills, 55 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCGFBS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Welcome To My Life?

173 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 Welcome To My Life hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Welcome To My Life?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 37, 43, 67, 79, 87 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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