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Pain Is A Master · Gojira

EXERCISE 18 OF 72
Join Part N to Chorus (bars 46-48)
96 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pain Is A Master on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
6:17
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-31, snare through bars 32-47, hi-hat through bars 48-79, snare through bars 80-87 and hi-hat through bars 88-116, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Pain Is A Master -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- P, AM -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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