I Don't Know · Druidess

98 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 10 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 133 BPM
I DON'T KNOW · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 17 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BARS 29-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 7 sections: 66 keep time, 23 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-21.

PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGDXHWFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Don't Know?

133 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 Know hard to play on drums?

54 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Know?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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