What's This Life For · Creed

71 bars, 3:36, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 7 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
WHAT'S THIS LIFE FOR · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 21, 25, 29 and 12 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 29-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 8 sections: 33 keep time, 18 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-45.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART F
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIEQFS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What's This Life For?

70 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 What's This Life For hard to play on drums?

62 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in What's This Life For?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 21, 25, 29 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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