Miseria Cantare (The Beginning) · AFI

71 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 103 BPM, 2:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 23 and 25, and 8 more places -- 43.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 103 BPM
MISERIA CANTARE (THE BEGINNING) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 54, 58, 66 and 70.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 5 sections: 58 keep time, 4 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAGDS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Miseria Cantare (The Beginning)?

103 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Miseria Cantare (The Beginning) hard to play on drums?

52 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Miseria Cantare (The Beginning)?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 54, 58, 66 and 70.

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