Painkiller D standard · Judas Priest

157 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 25-27, and 13 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 55, 56, 57 and 8 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 20 sections: 107 keep time, 14 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-85.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART AB
CHORUS 5
PART L
CHORUS 7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesIABLSAQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Painkiller D standard?

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 D standard hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 Painkiller D standard?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 55, 56, 57 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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