My Own Prison · Creed

78 bars, 4:27, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 8 and 10, and 5 more places -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
MY OWN PRISON · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 26, 36, 40, 44, 47 and 17 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 7 sections: 45 keep time, 23 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-20.

VERSE
PART J
PART M
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesPDJMV+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Own Prison?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is My Own Prison hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 15 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Own Prison?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 26, 36, 40, 44, 47 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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