Miss The Misery · Foo Fighters

106 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 85 BPM, 6:14 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
6:14
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 19-20 and 41-43, and 1 more place -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
MISS THE MISERY · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 6, 30, 44, 56 and 80.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 14 sections: 57 keep time, 5 are fills, 4 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-21.

PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART L
PART Q
PART T
BREAK
9 groovesS14FCJL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Miss The Misery?

85 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Misery hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Misery?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 6, 30, 44, 56 and 80.

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