Districts of misery · Oceano

96 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 88-90, and 1 more place -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DISTRICTS OF MISERY · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 29 and 18 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 10 sections: 53 keep time, 24 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART B
PART E
PART I
CHORUS
PART V
PART Z
PART I
PART V
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMEIVZ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Districts of misery?

125 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 Districts of misery hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 16 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 Districts of misery?

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 29 and 18 more.

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