Painkiller · Angra

157 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 22 and 24-31, and 11 more places -- 51.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
PAINKILLER · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 28 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 11 sections: 107 keep time, 34 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-85.

PART G
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIKGS4S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Painkiller?

120 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 Painkiller hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Painkiller?

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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