misery. · Pupsies

56 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:52 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-24 and 49-55 -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MISERY. · BAR 21
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 7 sections: 29 keep time and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-48.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS1CDES5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is misery.?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is misery. hard to play on drums?

33 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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