My Own Worst Enemy · Lit

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 2:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 103 BPM
MY OWN WORST ENEMY · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 36 and 9 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 11 sections: 42 keep time, 17 are fills and 3 are silent.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJCFPS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Own Worst Enemy?

103 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 Own Worst Enemy hard to play on drums?

54 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Worst Enemy?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 36 and 9 more.

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