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Miss The Misery · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 37 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Miss The Misery on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
6:14
DIFFICULTY
65/100

ride through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-22, toms through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-36, ride through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
HH |o-------X---g---x---g---X---g---x---g---X---g---|
SD |--------x---------------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------x-----------x---x-------x---|
Miss The Misery -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-41 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-67 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED