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Born On My Own · Emigrate

EXERCISE 6 OF 13
Groove D
45 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
BREAK
PART S4
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesCS3FS4S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Born On My Own on drums

77 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 51 BPM, 4:32 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
51 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, silence through bars 9-28, toms through bars 29-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56 and silence through bars 57-60, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 41-47 and 49-55, and 2 more places -- 59.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-----x-|
BD |x-xx--x-x---|
Born On My Own -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 40 and 60.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C, F -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-44 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Born On My Own?

51 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Born On My Own hard to play on drums?

47 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Born On My Own?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 40 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED