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A Miserable Life.. · Decalius

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 35 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO 2
6 groovesECOJM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Miserable Life.. on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
55/100

ride through bars 3-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-83.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
A Miserable Life.. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, O -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-53 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-67 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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