Not Meant To Be · Theory Of A Deadman

61 bars, 3:23, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 7 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
NOT MEANT TO BE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 14, 18, 25, 34, 36 and 6 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 10 sections: 33 keep time, 12 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

PART B
PART E
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJEBLS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Not Meant To Be?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Not Meant To Be 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Not Meant To Be?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 14, 18, 25, 34, 36 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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