Misanthropy · Decalius

95 bars, 5:51, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 25 more places -- 68.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 65 BPM
MISANTHROPY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 70.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars: 71 keep time, 1 is a fill, 22 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-25.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Misanthropy?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Misanthropy hard to play on drums?

54 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Misanthropy?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 70.

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