Pit of Misery · Get the Shot

210 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 4:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 74-77 and 148, and 1 more place -- 7.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 187 BPM
PIT OF MISERY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 16, 24, 42, 50, 52, 53 and 27 more.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 30 sections: 84 keep time, 33 are fills, 64 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

CHORUS
PART M
PART B
PART H
PART J
PART S
22 groovesEJBMH+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pit of Misery?

187 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 Pit of Misery hard to play on drums?

54 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 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Pit of Misery?

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 16, 24, 42, 50, 52, 53 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
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