Me Myself I · Joan Armatrading

108 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-43, 45-47 and 62-64, and 2 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ME MYSELF I · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 26, 27, 34, 52, 70, 72 and 7 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 10 sections: 58 keep time, 13 are fills, 8 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-47.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART L
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGES1AJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Me Myself I?

130 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 Me Myself I hard to play on drums?

39 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Me Myself I?

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 26, 27, 34, 52, 70, 72 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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