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Not Meant To Be · Theory Of A Deadman

EXERCISE 9 OF 40
Groove G
38 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Not Meant To Be on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
46/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-15, ride through bars 16-26, hi-hat through bars 27-37, ride through bars 38-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-49, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Not Meant To Be -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E, J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-30 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 13-31 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-49 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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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