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Let Me Be Myself · 3 Doors Down

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 9 PASSED · 43 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesCBS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Let Me Be Myself on drums

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-11, toms through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-47, silence through bars 48-52 and snare through bars 53-64.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-39, 41-46 and 53-59, and 1 more place -- 78.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    15               16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x----x--x---|----x----x--xx--|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|x--x--x---x---xx|
Let Me Be Myself -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Let Me Be Myself?

79 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 Let Me Be Myself hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 32 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED