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Misanthrope (Album Version) · Blade and Bath

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
BREAK
BREAK 2
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBS3IAL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Misanthrope (Album Version) on drums

232 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 6:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
6:11
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 2-65, silence through bars 66-85, hi-hat through bars 86-229 and kick and crashes through bars 230-232.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-32 and 34-48, and 13 more places -- 74.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-------o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Misanthrope (Album Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 33, 149 and 205.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 33-87 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 87-135 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 130-151 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 134-168 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Misanthrope (Album Version)?

150 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 Misanthrope (Album Version) hard to play on drums?

43 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 6:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Misanthrope (Album Version)?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 33, 149 and 205.

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