ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pain Divine on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 142 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 137
LENGTH: 3:52
DIFFICULTY: 100/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56 and ride through bars 57-64, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 25-27, and 11 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o---|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-|

Pain Divine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Bars 13-56 -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 10 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Pain Divine?

142 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 Pain Divine hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Pain Divine?

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED