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Relentless Chaos by Miss May I · deaw

EXERCISE 14 OF 70
Fill at bar 40 (a small one)
97 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART G
PART A
PART G
CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
9 groovesNAGAKU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Relentless Chaos by Miss May I on drums

177 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
53/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-32, snare through bars 33-52, hi-hat through bars 53-101, toms through bars 102-128 and hi-hat through bars 129-161, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 57-59 and 87-93, and 4 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    55
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Relentless Chaos by Miss May I -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 32, 40, 94, 102, 110 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- N, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-143 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-171 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Relentless Chaos by Miss May I?

215 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 Relentless Chaos by Miss May I hard to play on drums?

53 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 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Relentless Chaos by Miss May I?

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 32, 40, 94, 102, 110 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED