I Wasn't There · The jins

68 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-11, 21-23 and 27, and 1 more place -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
I WASN'T THERE · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 4 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 11 sections: 41 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-11.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
PART S7
PART B
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCHFBQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Wasn't There?

118 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 Wasn't There hard to play on drums?

49 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Wasn't There?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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