Joy And Pain · Maze, Frankie Beverly

189 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 7:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
7:12
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-44, 49-119 and 121-127, and 1 more place -- 96.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
JOY AND PAIN · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 120, 128 and 189.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 189
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 3 sections: 184 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-119.

VERSE
VERSE 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Joy And Pain?

105 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 Joy And Pain hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 7:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Joy And Pain?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 120, 128 and 189.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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