My Friend Of Misery · Metallica

199 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 24 and 26, and 13 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MY FRIEND OF MISERY · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 59, 60, 64 and 20 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 16 sections: 100 keep time, 26 are fills, 50 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-48.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGDACS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Friend Of Misery?

120 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 My Friend Of Misery hard to play on drums?

47 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 6:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 My Friend Of Misery?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 59, 60, 64 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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