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I Don't Know Who I Am · Composers of MSB

EXERCISE 8 OF 53
Groove D -- Part D
51 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART C
PART D
PART F
PART J
PART M
CHORUS
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesQNMXC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Don't Know Who I Am on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 2-13, silence through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-48, snare through bars 49-55, hi-hat through bars 56-67 and snare through bars 68-73, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 61 and 68-73, and 2 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    68
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
I Don't Know Who I Am -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 11, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- B, M -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 10-20 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 30-55 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Don't Know Who I Am?

120 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 Who I Am hard to play on drums?

57 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?

123 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Who I Am?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 11, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED