It Is Not Meant to Be · Tame Impala

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-27, and 6 more places -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
IT IS NOT MEANT TO BE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 24, 56, 69, 82, 110 and 2 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 10 sections: 93 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-93.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART O
PART K
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCOKS9S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It Is Not Meant to Be?

100 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 It Is Not Meant to Be hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 It Is Not Meant to Be?

8 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 24, 56, 69, 82, 110 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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