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My Instincts Are The Enemy · American Football

EXERCISE 16 OF 28
Run H1 · Part H (bars 44-47)
121 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBUS7FP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Instincts Are The Enemy on drums

177 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-33, ride through bars 34-43, snare through bars 44-46, hi-hat through bars 47-71, ride through bars 72-81 and snare through bars 82-84, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-24, and 4 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |g---------------|----------------|
HH |--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-----x-x-o-|
SD |--------x-------|------x-x-----x-|
BD |x---x-----------|----------x-----|
My Instincts Are The Enemy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 34, 35 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, U -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-44 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-111 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is My Instincts Are The Enemy?

140 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 My Instincts Are The Enemy hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in My Instincts Are The Enemy?

3 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 34, 35 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED