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I Don't Know · Ozzy Osbourne

EXERCISE 3 OF 46
Groove J -- Part J
74 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, OUTRO 2
PART E
PART J
PART E
PART J
PART N
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCJENS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Don't Know on drums

166 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-25, ride through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-57, ride through bars 58-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-99, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 28 and 30, and 23 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------g-|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
I Don't Know -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-37 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-75 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part N -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 109-161 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Don't Know?

135 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?

55 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED