It Was Mine · AFI

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-19, 35-40 and 55-57, and 3 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 81 BPM
IT WAS MINE · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 13, 21, 24, 32, 34 and 10 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 8 sections: 44 keep time, 16 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART K
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFAKDS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It Was Mine?

81 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Was Mine hard to play on drums?

74 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?

70 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 It Was Mine?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 13, 21, 24, 32, 34 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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