Misery Business (Standard Tuning) · Paramore

140 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 27-34 and 65-71, and 3 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 173 BPM
MISERY BUSINESS (STANDARD TUNING) · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 26, 38, 42, 64, 72 and 12 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 17 sections: 57 keep time, 18 are fills and 44 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

PART A
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART Y
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJADFL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Misery Business (Standard Tuning)?

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 (Standard Tuning) hard to play on drums?

57 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?

140 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Business (Standard Tuning)?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 26, 38, 42, 64, 72 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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