Miss America · Styx

140 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-27 and 37-43, and 3 more places -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MISS AMERICA · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 28 and 52.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 8 sections: 123 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-94.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCKIBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Miss America?

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 Miss America hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Miss America?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 28 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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