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a miserable life · Decalius

EXERCISE 22 OF 29
Join Part B to Outro (bars 94-96)
125 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO
PART D
CHORUS
PART S7
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGJDS7B+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play a miserable life on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-33, hi-hat through bars 34-36, snare through bars 37-70, silence through bars 71-73 and snare through bars 74-87, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-68 -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
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

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 69 and 133.

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 -- G, J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-24 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-37 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-95 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 94-134 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is a miserable life?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 a miserable life hard to play on drums?

45 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 69 and 133.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED