Pain · Blackfield

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-19 and 29-31, and 7 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 79 BPM
PAIN · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 36, 44, 68 and 1 more.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 7 sections: 58 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-27.

PART C
VERSE
CHORUS
OUTRO
6 groovesHBCS4S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pain?

79 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 Pain hard to play on drums?

56 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Pain?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 36, 44, 68 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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