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Welcome To My Life · Simple Plan

EXERCISE 35 OF 37
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 135-137)
142 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Welcome To My Life on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
48/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, snare through bars 34-39, kick and crashes through bars 40-41, hi-hat through bars 42-65 and toms through bars 66-67, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Welcome To My Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C, F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-85 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-96 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 73-136 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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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