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Pain · Dry Kill Logic

EXERCISE 16 OF 62
Groove M
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART G
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKGXAFP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pain on drums

125 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
53/100

ride through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-42, ride through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-72, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 8 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Pain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- K, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-84 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 36-73 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-65 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-76 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pain?

186 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 Pain hard to play on drums?

53 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Pain?

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED