Pain · Three Days Grace

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 19-21 and 23-25, and 4 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
PAIN · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 22, 26 and 13 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 5 sections: 32 keep time, 19 are fills, 7 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-41.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCAS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pain?

80 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 hard to play on drums?

51 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 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?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 22, 26 and 13 more.

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