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I Touch Myself · Divinyls

I Touch Myself · Divinyls
EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCES1DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Touch Myself on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 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
115
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13-14, and 30 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
I Touch Myself -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-57 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 58-115 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Touch Myself?

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 Touch Myself hard to play on drums?

44 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED