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You Only Live Once (cover) · Nocturnal Reverie

You Only Live Once (cover) · Nocturnal Reverie
EXERCISE 19 OF 47
Join Part L to Chorus 2 (bars 32-34)
56 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART AH
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesILDAHAB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Only Live Once (cover) on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56 and snare through bars 57-61, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 19 and 21, and 9 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
You Only Live Once (cover) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- G, L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-12 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-23 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is You Only Live Once (cover)?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 You Only Live Once (cover) hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 You Only Live Once (cover)?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED