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Music Or The Misery · Fall Out Boy

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove J -- Chorus
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PART B
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
PART N
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJFNDB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Music Or The Misery on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-57 and snare through bars 58-67, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-------x---|
RD |x-------x-------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Music Or The Misery -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- J, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-38 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-60 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-81 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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