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Painkiller · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 3 OF 75
Groove J -- Part J
58 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART D
PART J
PART J
PART J
PART W
CHORUS 5
PART J
PART J
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGJWATU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Painkiller on drums

165 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
96/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-44, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 25-27, and 7 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----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 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 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?

19 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED