For the Love of Pain · Testament

150 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-26 and 28-30, and 4 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
FOR THE LOVE OF PAIN · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 17 and 30 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 5-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 19 sections: 78 keep time, 36 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-140.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART Z
PART AE
CHORUS 3
PART V
PART Z
OUTRO
12 groovesNAEAKZH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is For the Love of Pain?

125 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 For the Love of Pain hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 For the Love of Pain?

24 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 17 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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