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I'm Just A Kid · Simple Plan

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove B -- Outro 2
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART S8
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCBES1M+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I'm Just A Kid on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-15, ride through bars 16-20, silence through bars 21-22, toms through bars 23-35, ride through bars 36-40 and toms through bars 41-44, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 18, and 12 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
I'm Just A Kid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-47 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-59 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-79 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I'm Just A Kid?

110 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'm Just A Kid hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in I'm Just A Kid?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED