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My Own Worst Enemy · Lit

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove J -- Chorus
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0 / 27 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Own Worst Enemy on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-36 and ride through bars 37-44, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
My Own Worst Enemy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-20 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-56 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED