Missing Posters · VIOLENT VIRA

89 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 41-43, and 3 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
MISSING POSTERS · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 60, 68, 72 and 6 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 72-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 7 sections: 61 keep time, 12 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
4 groovesBHFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Missing Posters?

138 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 Posters 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Missing Posters?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 60, 68, 72 and 6 more.

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