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My Friend Of Misery · Metallica

EXERCISE 25 OF 58
Fill at bar 64 (a small one)
144 / 199 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART D
PART A
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Friend Of Misery on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-58, toms through bars 59-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-84, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
My Friend Of Misery -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- D, G, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-33 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-101 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 119-151 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and the Chorus 4 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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