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Pit of Misery · Get the Shot

EXERCISE 1 OF 96
Groove E -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART H
PART J
PART Q
PART S
CHORUS 3
22 groovesEJBMH+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 5
JOIN · 21
LINK · 6
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pit of Misery on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, snare through bars 16-42, hi-hat through bars 43-51, toms through bars 52-53 and snare through bars 54-65, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Pit of Misery -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 79 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-39 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-44 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-47 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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