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The Miracle · Queen

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove B -- Verse
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VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBIPOS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Miracle on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 5:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-9, hi-hat through bars 10-85, kick and crashes through bars 86-89, silence through bars 90-92 and snare through bars 93-98, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 13-22 and 25-29, and 12 more places -- 43.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |-xxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The Miracle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 30, 38, 58, 65, 93 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, P -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-108 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Miracle?

92 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 The Miracle hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 The Miracle?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 30, 38, 58, 65, 93 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED