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I Rape Myself · Caliban

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 24 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesS6DGMK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Rape Myself on drums

72 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 176 BPM, 3:15 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
45/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-24, hi-hat through bars 25-29, snare through bars 30-36 and silence through bars 37-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7 and 9-11 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
I Rape Myself -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 8 and 33.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Rape Myself?

176 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Rape Myself hard to play on drums?

45 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 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 Rape Myself?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 8 and 33.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED