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Miseria Cantare (The Beginning) · AFI

EXERCISE 20 OF 20
Play the whole song with the record
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0 / 20 PASSED · 71 BARS LIT
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAGDS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Miseria Cantare (The Beginning) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-20, silence through bars 21-22, toms through bars 23-42, hi-hat through bars 43-54 and ride through bars 55-71.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
SD |------x-----|
BD |x--x-x------|
Miseria Cantare (The Beginning) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 19-59 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 39-55 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED