Mouthful Of Poison · Kittie

147 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 26 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MOUTHFUL OF POISON · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 109 and 113.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 11 sections: 114 keep time, 3 are fills, 15 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-147.

PART B
PART D
PART E
PART E
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJSEFD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mouthful Of Poison?

140 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 Mouthful Of Poison hard to play on drums?

61 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 Mouthful Of Poison?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 109 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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