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Painkiller · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 3 OF 25
Groove B -- Outro 2
22 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHCBS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Painkiller on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-15, snare through bars 16-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22 and snare through bars 23-26, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 23 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x--x-xx-x--x-x|
Painkiller -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 24, 36, 40, 44, 45 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- H, E (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-66 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Painkiller?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 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?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 24, 36, 40, 44, 45 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED