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It Was Mine · AFI

EXERCISE 10 OF 38
Fill at bar 13 and 34
51 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It Was Mine on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
74/100

toms through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-19, hi-hat through bars 20-21, toms through bars 22-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-34, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x--------------g--------x-----------|
BD |x-----x--------------g--x-----x--g-----x-----g--|
It Was Mine -- 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 11, 13, 21, 24, 32, 34 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 20-41 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-51 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-70 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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