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I Miss You · Incubus

EXERCISE 4 OF 12
Groove C
89 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Miss You on drums

104 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 117 BPM, 2:40 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
47/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-23, and 12 more places -- 54.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1            2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x--x-|xx-xx-----x-|
BD |x-------x---|x-------x---|
I Miss You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- A, D -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Miss You?

117 BPM, in 3/4, 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 I Miss You hard to play on drums?

47 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED