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Ballard of the broken man by Miss May I · Song

EXERCISE 24 OF 30
Groove L -- Part L (a two-bar phrase)
89 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ballard of the broken man by Miss May I on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12 and snare through bars 13-97.

The beat

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.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Ballard of the broken man by Miss May I -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-17 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-49 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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