Missing Piece · Vance Joy

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-27, 45-68 and 73-84 -- 49.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 102 BPM
MISSING PIECE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 18, 19, 43, 44 and 72.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 7 sections: 80 keep time, 5 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-68.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEAS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Missing Piece?

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 Missing Piece hard to play on drums?

35 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Missing Piece?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 18, 19, 43, 44 and 72.

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