Hit Or Miss · New Found Glory

139 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-14 and 40, and 11 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
HIT OR MISS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 25, 33, 35 and 22 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 13 sections: 88 keep time, 28 are fills, 6 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-24.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART AE
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFKAENA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hit Or Miss?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hit Or Miss hard to play on drums?

57 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Hit Or Miss?

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 25, 33, 35 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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