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The Misanthrope · Local H

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
PART I
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesCNAKH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Misanthrope on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-16, snare through bars 17-31, toms through bars 32-48, silence through bars 49-50 and snare through bars 51-57, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-29 and 31, and 11 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
The Misanthrope -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 32, 56, 72, 73, 74 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- C, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-49 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-75 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Misanthrope?

134 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 Misanthrope hard to play on drums?

49 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Misanthrope?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 32, 56, 72, 73, 74 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED