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Hit Or Miss · New Found Glory

EXERCISE 26 OF 54
Join Part K to Chorus 2 (bars 38-40)
109 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART K
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hit Or Miss on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-24 and ride through bars 25-33, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Hit Or Miss -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- F -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, AE -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-15 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 40-83 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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