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I Am Machine · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCPVS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am Machine on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, snare through bars 27-42, hi-hat through bars 43-58, snare through bars 59-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-74, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
I Am Machine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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