Misery Loves My Company · Three Days Grace

132 bars at 199 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
199 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 33-46 and 73-86, and 5 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 199 BPM
MISERY LOVES MY COMPANY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 131.

LOOP · 199 BPM
BAR 131 · LANDS ON BAR 132
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 6 sections: 67 keep time, 1 is a fill, 52 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Misery Loves My Company?

199 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 Loves My Company hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Misery Loves My Company?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 131.

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