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Miss America · Styx

EXERCISE 11 OF 22
Groove G (a two-bar phrase)
119 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Miss America on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, toms through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52 and toms through bars 53-64, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--x-------x-----|
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Miss America -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, K -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 58-99 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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