Horror Business · Misfits

121 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Punk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12, 18-28 and 34-36, and 8 more places -- 71.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 180 BPM
HORROR BUSINESS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 13, 29, 37, 53, 61, 69 and 5 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 11 sections: 80 keep time, 11 are fills and 18 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Horror Business?

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 Horror Business hard to play on drums?

49 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?

121 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Horror Business?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 13, 29, 37, 53, 61, 69 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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