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Motherless Miscarriage · Infant Annihilator

EXERCISE 2 OF 34
10-bar fill at bar 2
3 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesYVAPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Motherless Miscarriage on drums

67 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
1:24
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-14, ride through bars 15-18, snare through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36 and toms through bars 37-38, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26 -- 4.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Motherless Miscarriage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- V -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. Through Part V -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part V -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part V and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Motherless Miscarriage?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Motherless Miscarriage hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 1:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Motherless Miscarriage?

11 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED