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Immaculate Misconception · Motionless In White

EXERCISE 29 OF 42
Groove M
94 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART B
PART D
PART G
PART H
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
PART A
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
14 groovesJAGHP+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 5
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Immaculate Misconception on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 5:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
41/100

snare through bars 2-19, hi-hat through bars 20-35, silence through bars 36-55, hi-hat through bars 56-71, kick and crashes through bars 72-77 and snare through bars 78-79, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-47, 49-52 and 114-123, and 1 more place -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Immaculate Misconception -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 3, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- J, G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-141 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-31 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-72 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and the Break 3 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part P and Part S14 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Immaculate Misconception?

105 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Immaculate Misconception hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Immaculate Misconception?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 3, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED