I Am Machine · Three Days Grace

119 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 27-33 and 35, and 12 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 151 BPM
I AM MACHINE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 10, 42, 73, 74, 76, 78 and 14 more.

LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 151 BPM
BARS 73-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 5 sections: 88 keep time, 20 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-41.

CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCPVS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Am Machine?

151 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 I Am Machine hard to play on drums?

49 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 I Am Machine?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 10, 42, 73, 74, 76, 78 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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