I Hate Myself For Loving You · Joan Jett

120 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPunk90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 12 more places -- 57.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
I HATE MYSELF FOR LOVING YOU · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 30, 37, 38 and 16 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 8 sections: 88 keep time and 22 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBIACQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Hate Myself For Loving You?

118 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 Hate Myself For Loving You hard to play on drums?

53 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hate Myself For Loving You?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 30, 37, 38 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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