I'm Not Okay (I Promise) · My Chemical Romance

138 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-19 and 35, and 4 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
I'M NOT OKAY (I PROMISE) · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 40, 44, 48 and 10 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 14 sections: 85 keep time, 16 are fills, 16 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-35.

CHORUS
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDGLABAD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I'm Not Okay (I Promise)?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I'm Not Okay (I Promise) hard to play on drums?

64 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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'm Not Okay (I Promise)?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 40, 44, 48 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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