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Miracle · Marty Friedman

EXERCISE 10 OF 27
2-bar fill at bar 43
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0 / 27 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDJBS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Miracle on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-22, snare through bars 23-42, toms through bars 43-44, snare through bars 45-62 and silence through bars 63-72, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    25                       26
    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--------|
Miracle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-45 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-81 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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