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Painkiller · Death

EXERCISE 2 OF 68
Groove N -- Part N
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PART E
CHORUS
PART N
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART AA
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART N
OUTRO 2
8 groovesINAAES2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Painkiller on drums

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.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
100/100

snare through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, ride through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-45, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Painkiller -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 4-17 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 14-42 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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