Not Afraid · Eminem

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-32, 37-56 and 58-63, and 1 more place -- 91.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 86 BPM
NOT AFRAID · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 6 sections: 71 keep time and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-64.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesCS1S5AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Not Afraid?

86 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 Not Afraid 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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