Last Caress · Misfits

42 bars, 2:14, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

PunkMetalcore / HardcoreUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
42
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-26, 28-29 and 34-40 -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 75 BPM
LAST CARESS · BAR 34
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 15, 16 and 1 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

42 bars across 7 sections: 23 keep time, 7 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-40.

PART F
PART G
PART F
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesLFGS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Last Caress?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Last Caress hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

42 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Last Caress?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 15, 16 and 1 more.

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