I Hate Myself For Loving You · Joan Jett And The Blackhearts

119 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 12 more places -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 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 5, 9, 25, 31, 38, 39 and 16 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 9 sections: 84 keep time, 22 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBHFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Hate Myself For Loving You?

120 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 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 5, 9, 25, 31, 38, 39 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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