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You Only Live Once · The Strokes

You Only Live Once · The Strokes
EXERCISE 14 OF 18
Groove G
84 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Only Live Once on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-28, hi-hat through bars 29-43, snare through bars 44-67, hi-hat through bars 68-83 and snare through bars 84-90.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |r-rrX-r-r-r-X-r-|
BD |x-----x---------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
You Only Live Once -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-33 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-83 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED