May this pain never leave · Boundaries

145 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19-21 and 77, and 16 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
MAY THIS PAIN NEVER LEAVE · BAR 115
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 32, 40, 48 and 22 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 16 sections: 81 keep time, 28 are fills, 14 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-39.

PART E
CHORUS
PART S6
PART Q
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART A
PART AK
11 groovesMWAKIA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is May this pain never leave?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is May this pain never leave hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 May this pain never leave?

18 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 32, 40, 48 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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