What Is Life · George Harrison

146 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-12, 31-38 and 57-64, and 6 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
WHAT IS LIFE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 13, 39, 65, 66, 74, 75 and 7 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 65-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 74-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 12 sections: 107 keep time, 13 are fills, 3 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-29.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART F
CHORUS 5
5 groovesCFUS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What Is Life?

132 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 What Is Life hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 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 What Is Life?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 13, 39, 65, 66, 74, 75 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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