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Miracle · A Day To Remember

EXERCISE 9 OF 58
Groove E
72 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO 2
PART C
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART C
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesPCADJG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Miracle on drums

159 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, silence through bars 29-32, snare through bars 33-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-40, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33                                               34
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------x-----|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----------|------x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------|
Miracle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 40, 44, 48, 52, 76, 84 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- P -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, AD -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-113 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Miracle?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Miracle hard to play on drums?

63 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Miracle?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 40, 44, 48, 52, 76, 84 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED