Dig Up Her Bones · Misfits

76 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 22-29 and 42-52 -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 111 BPM
DIG UP HER BONES · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 9, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 13 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 18-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 8 sections: 49 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-52.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFKBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dig Up Her Bones?

111 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 Dig Up Her Bones hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 Dig Up Her Bones?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 9, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 13 more.

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