ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play MISS YOU on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 136 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 130
LENGTH: 3:49
DIFFICULTY: 69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, toms through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68, toms through bars 69-72, hi-hat through bars 73-80 and kick and crashes through bars 81-85, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-12 and 37-40, and 11 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                                                6
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------|
SD |------------x--------x-----x--------x-----------|------------x--------------x--------x-----x--x--|
T2 |------------------------------------------x--x--|------------------------------------------------|
BD |x--------x--------x-----------x-----------------|x--------x--------x-----------x-----------------|

MISS YOU -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 14, 16, 24, 42, 44 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 6-36 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part I and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 46-61 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 5 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is MISS YOU?

136 BPM, in 4/4, 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 YOU hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 YOU?

16 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 14, 16, 24, 42, 44 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED