Addicted To Pain · Alter Bridge

125 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 71-73, 75-77 and 110-112, and 3 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ADDICTED TO PAIN · BAR 72
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19 and 25 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 18 sections: 66 keep time, 31 are fills, 5 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-120.

PART G
PART E
CHORUS
PART G
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART X
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesLUEGX+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Addicted To Pain?

120 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 Addicted To Pain hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

125 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Addicted To Pain?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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