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Me Myself I · Joan Armatrading

Me Myself I · Joan Armatrading
EXERCISE 35 OF 42
Fill at bar 102 (a small one)
80 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Me Myself I on drums

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

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-17, toms through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-52, toms through bars 53-60, hi-hat through bars 61-68 and toms through bars 69-72, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- G, E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-48 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-54 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-73 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-101 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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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