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Red Miso · Leaders As Animals

Red Miso · Leaders As Animals
EXERCISE 2 OF 52
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
7 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART I
PART N
PART AC
PART AO
CHORUS
PART BW
BREAK 2
13 groovesS11ACNS14AO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Red Miso on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-40, snare through bars 41-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-58, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-16, 27 and 29-32 -- 6.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15                                               16
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |---------------------------------------x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x-----------x-----------------------|
HH |o--------x--o-----------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
SD |---g--------------x--g--------x-----------------|------------------------x-----x-----------g-----|
BD |------x-----------------x--x-----x--x-----------|---------------x--x--x-----x--------x--x-----x--|
HF |------X-----------X-----------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
Red Miso -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 40, 55, 56, 63, 64 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-21 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-34 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-41 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-53 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Red Miso?

131 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Red Miso hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Red Miso?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 40, 55, 56, 63, 64 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED