Miracle · Marty Friedman

129 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19, 21 and 25-42, and 8 more places -- 53.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
MIRACLE · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 43, 44, 80, 86, 108, 112 and 2 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 6 sections: 87 keep time, 8 are fills, 15 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-42.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDJBS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Miracle?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Miracle hard to play on drums?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Miracle?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 43, 44, 80, 86, 108, 112 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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