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I Don't Want To Grow Up · The Ramones

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove A -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART B
CHORUS 6
PART B
OUTRO
3 groovesABCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Don't Want To Grow Up on drums

118 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 2:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
59/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-44, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 13-20 and 29-36, and 5 more places -- 58.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- A, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 3-57 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-115 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Don't Want To Grow Up?

184 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I Don't Want To Grow Up hard to play on drums?

59 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Want To Grow Up?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED