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Missilia Amori · Ghost

EXERCISE 19 OF 47
Groove L -- Part L (a two-bar phrase)
90 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART L
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART L
PART E
PART B
OUTRO
6 groovesDBELC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Missilia Amori on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
43/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-25, hi-hat through bars 26-45, ride through bars 46-49, hi-hat through bars 50-53 and toms through bars 54-58, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-29, 38-43 and 50-51, and 4 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-----------|
HH |--------o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-------|
Missilia Amori -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 37, 54, 55, 57, 59, 61 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- D, B, A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-38 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part C and Part L -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-84 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Missilia Amori?

102 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 Missilia Amori hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Missilia Amori?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 37, 54, 55, 57, 59, 61 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED