Pain For Pleasure · Sum 41

67 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
1:40
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-22 -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
PAIN FOR PLEASURE · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 31, 39, 47 and 55.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 7 sections: 46 keep time, 4 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-22.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHCEJN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pain For Pleasure?

160 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 For Pleasure 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 1:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Pain For Pleasure?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 31, 39, 47 and 55.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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