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Not My Enemy · Destination Point

EXERCISE 9 OF 58
Fill at bar 11 (a small one)
40 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE BREAK
PART A
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Not My Enemy on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-26, snare through bars 27-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-48, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----------x-----x--x--x-----|
Not My Enemy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- J, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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