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Missing Posters · VIOLENT VIRA

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
4 groovesBHFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Missing Posters on drums

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

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, snare through bars 26-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56 and snare through bars 57-89.

The beat

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.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---x---|--x-----x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|----x---------x-|
Missing Posters -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 58-89 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED