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Misery · blink-182

EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove I -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART T
PART X
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
11 groovesIKXBD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Misery on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-30, snare through bars 31-36, ride through bars 37-40, snare through bars 41-44 and ride through bars 45-47, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----x-x-xx|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x-----x-------|
Misery -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- I -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-59 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-41 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED