I Don't Wanna Be Me · Type O Negative

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-30, 48-50 and 52-55, and 4 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
I DON'T WANNA BE ME · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 15, 23, 31, 39, 47 and 9 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 11 sections: 67 keep time and 16 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-6.

PART B
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJEHOR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Don't Wanna Be Me?

100 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 Wanna Be Me hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 Wanna Be Me?

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 15, 23, 31, 39, 47 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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