Music Or The Misery · Fall Out Boy

149 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-48, 84-98 and 132-146 -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
MUSIC OR THE MISERY · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 25, 33, 67 and 5 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 13 sections: 101 keep time, 11 are fills, 14 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 141-149.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART F
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJFNDB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Music Or The Misery?

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

Is Music Or The Misery hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Music Or The Misery?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 25, 33, 67 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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