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Pain · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 17 OF 29
5-bar fill at bar 46
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0 / 29 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCAS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pain on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-8, toms through bars 9-18, hi-hat through bars 19-25, toms through bars 26-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-52, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-----------|
HH |o-o---o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-------|
Pain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C, E -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED