Pain Is A Master · Gojira

182 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 6:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
6:17
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-50, 53-54 and 57-58, and 10 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
PAIN IS A MASTER · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 14, 22, 59, 71, 79, 91 and 21 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 12 sections: 108 keep time, 27 are fills and 30 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-46.

PART N
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AI
PART AM
OUTRO
6 groovesPAINAMA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pain Is A Master?

116 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 Is A Master hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 6:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Is A Master?

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 14, 22, 59, 71, 79, 91 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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