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Misanthrope · Blade and Bath

EXERCISE 29 OF 33
Fill at bar 83
104 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Misanthrope on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
6:03
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 2-33, silence through bars 34-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-114.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Misanthrope -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-52 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-67 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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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