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What's This Life For · Creed

EXERCISE 17 OF 40
Groove N
35 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART Q, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What's This Life For on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-21, hi-hat through bars 22-31 and ride through bars 32-71.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x---x---x----|
What's This Life For -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-68 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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