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I Don't Wanna Be Me · Type O Negative

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove J -- Chorus
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0 / 48 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Don't Wanna Be Me on drums

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.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-7, ride through bars 8-15, hi-hat through bars 16-23, snare through bars 24-31 and ride through bars 32-39, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
I Don't Wanna Be Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-27 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-48 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 68-84 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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