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Misery Business (Standard Tuning) · Paramore

EXERCISE 16 OF 56
Groove L -- Part L
98 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT
PART A
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJADFL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Misery Business (Standard Tuning) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-26, snare through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, snare through bars 43-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-64, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Misery Business (Standard Tuning) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-90 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 36-78 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 82-108 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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