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Pain · Blackfield

EXERCISE 21 OF 25
Run H1 · Chorus (bars 13-52)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
VERSE
CHORUS
OUTRO
6 groovesHBCS4S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pain on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-52, silence through bars 53-55 and ride through bars 56-57, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x-----|
Pain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- H, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
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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