Misery · blink-182

154 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-36, 41-44 and 75-78, and 7 more places -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 162 BPM
MISERY · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 16, 32, 38, 40, 46, 66 and 27 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 24 sections: 74 keep time, 33 are fills, 7 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-24.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART N
PART G
PART T
PART X
OUTRO 2
11 groovesIKXBD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Misery?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Misery hard to play on drums?

60 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?

154 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Misery?

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 16, 32, 38, 40, 46, 66 and 27 more.

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