A Miserable Life.. · Decalius

83 bars, 5:06, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 27-33, and 2 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 65 BPM
A MISERABLE LIFE.. · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 22, 26, 34 and 7 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 6 sections: 62 keep time, 14 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-81.

PART C
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO 2
6 groovesECOJM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Miserable Life..?

65 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 A Miserable Life.. hard to play on drums?

55 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 A Miserable Life..?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 22, 26, 34 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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