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I Am Mine · Pearl Jam

EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove D -- Part D
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PART B
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART N
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIKDME+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am Mine on drums

94 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 82 BPM, 3:27 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, ride through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-70, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-20 and 23-24, and 3 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-o-x-x-x-|
SD |---x--x--g--|
BD |x---x-----x-|
I Am Mine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 28, 34, 36, 41, 52 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- D, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-71 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-61 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-63 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-53 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-65 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Am Mine?

82 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Mine hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 I Am Mine?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 28, 34, 36, 41, 52 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED