Painkiller · Death

156 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 26-28, and 12 more places -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
PAINKILLER · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 31 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 2-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 16 sections: 97 keep time, 37 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-55.

PART E
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART AA
CHORUS 4
PART N
OUTRO 2
8 groovesINAAES2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Painkiller?

118 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 how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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