My Own Worst Enemy (Standard) · 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.

90 to 119 BPM
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 (STANDARD) · 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 (Standard)?

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 (Standard) 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 (Standard)?

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
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