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Im Not Okay (I Promise) · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 17 OF 58
Groove K
79 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDGABADL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Im Not Okay (I Promise) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, ride through bars 37-48, snare through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-68, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-19 and 35, and 4 more places -- 21.8% 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+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Im Not Okay (I Promise) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 37-53 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Im 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 Im Not Okay (I Promise) hard to play on drums?

60 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 47 exercises over 14 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 Im 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