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My Own Prison · Creed

EXERCISE 8 OF 46
Groove G
26 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, CHORUS
VERSE
PART J
PART M
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesPDJMV+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Own Prison on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-44 and ride through bars 45-78.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xgxgxgxgxgxgxgo-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x-----xx--xx-|
My Own Prison -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 2-54 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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