Misanthrope · Blade and Bath

114 bars, 6:03, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
6:03
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 26-32, and 5 more places -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
MISANTHROPE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 17, 59, 67, 73, 74 and 2 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 73-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 12 sections: 50 keep time, 9 are fills, 37 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-25.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBES5HJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Misanthrope?

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 Misanthrope hard to play on drums?

45 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 17, 59, 67, 73, 74 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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