I Hate Everything About You · Three Days Grace

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

89 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

82

LENGTH

3:41

DIFFICULTY

71/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, ride through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-49, ride through bars 50-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-67, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 50-52, and 5 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26               27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x--x--x-------|x-x--x--x-------|
RD |----------x-----|------x---x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----fgxx|----x--x----x--x|
BD |x-x--x--x--x----|x-x--x--x--x----|

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 29, 48, 53, 60, 66 and 2 more.

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 9-53 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Through Part H and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.