Not 'cause Of Me · A.D.D.

47 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 1:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
1:53
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 15 and 24, and 3 more places -- 36.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
NOT 'CAUSE OF ME · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 16, 27 and 31.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

47 bars across 5 sections: 36 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-15.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEIAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Not 'cause Of Me?

100 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 'cause Of Me hard to play on drums?

46 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

47 bars, about 1:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Not 'cause Of Me?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 16, 27 and 31.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 47 BARS ANALYSED
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