You Only Live Once · The Strokes

90 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-28, 44-67 and 84-89 -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 121 BPM
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 36, 71 and 75.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 6 sections: 78 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-28.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Only Live Once?

121 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 You Only Live Once hard to play on drums?

51 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 You Only Live Once?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 36, 71 and 75.

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