Misery Business · Paramore

150 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 37-44 and 75-81, and 3 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 173 BPM
MISERY BUSINESS · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 30, 36, 48, 52, 74 and 13 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 18 sections: 58 keep time, 19 are fills, 44 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-25.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART Y
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJBEGL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Misery Business?

173 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 Business 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Business?

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 30, 36, 48, 52, 74 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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