Not My Enemy · Destination Point

131 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 18 and 29, and 13 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
NOT MY ENEMY · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 11, 16, 20, 40, 44 and 6 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 14 sections: 88 keep time, 12 are fills, 6 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-76.

PART A
PART M
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART AI
PART AN
OUTRO
11 groovesJMAGAAI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Not My Enemy?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 My Enemy hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

131 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 My Enemy?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 11, 16, 20, 40, 44 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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