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Addicted To Pain · Alter Bridge

EXERCISE 7 OF 68
Groove L -- Chorus
22 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Addicted To Pain on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-29, snare through bars 30-39, hi-hat through bars 40-55 and snare through bars 56-63, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    72
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x---xx|
Addicted To Pain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- U -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-40 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-51 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-63 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-68 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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