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Bite The Pain · Death

EXERCISE 2 OF 70
Groove O -- Chorus
28 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART K
CHORUS
PART X
PART AI
PART AL
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesOXKAIAL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bite The Pain on drums

176 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 6:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
6:03
DIFFICULTY
84/100

hi-hat through bars 1-37, ride through bars 38-53, toms through bars 54-57, hi-hat through bars 58-73, toms through bars 74-77 and snare through bars 78-79, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 30-36 and 120-126, and 1 more place -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Bite The Pain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 12, 16, 29, 37, 54, 55 and 26 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 6-30 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bite The Pain?

116 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Bite The Pain hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Bite The Pain?

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 12, 16, 29, 37, 54, 55 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED