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I Love My Computer · Bad Religion

EXERCISE 5 OF 24
Groove H
52 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART C
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Love My Computer on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, ride through bars 45-52, hi-hat through bars 53-56 and ride through bars 57-76, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 21 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
I Love My Computer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 44, 52, 57 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B, A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-69 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Love My Computer?

123 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 Love My Computer hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Love My Computer?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 44, 52, 57 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED