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I Don't Care · Apocalyptica

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove J -- Verse
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
VERSE
PART M
PART S8
VERSE 2
OUTRO
8 groovesJBS8MO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Don't Care on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:03 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
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, toms through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-26, ride through bars 27-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-43, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 52-54, and 3 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |-xxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
I Don't Care -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 13, 17, 25, 26, 30, 34 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-21 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-27 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-38 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-60 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-65 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Don't Care?

90 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 Don't Care hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Don't Care?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 13, 17, 25, 26, 30, 34 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED