Ballard of the broken man by Miss May I · Song

97 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 33-40 and 49, and 3 more places -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BALLARD OF THE BROKEN MAN BY MISS MAY I · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 7 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 8-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 12 sections: 71 keep time, 13 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-96.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHAFJLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ballard of the broken man by Miss May I?

111 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 Ballard of the broken man by Miss May I hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ballard of the broken man by Miss May I?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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