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Misanthropy · Decalius

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove A -- Outro
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0 / 9 PASSED · 64 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Misanthropy on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
54/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    2
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--------xxx|
Misanthropy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED