Pain Of Love · Tokio Hotel

122 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-32, 53-54 and 57-59, and 2 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
PAIN OF LOVE · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 24, 44, 48, 52, 56 and 23 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 10 sections: 63 keep time, 29 are fills, 14 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-15.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHCOAES+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pain Of Love?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Of Love hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Of Love?

8 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 24, 44, 48, 52, 56 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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