Pleasure for Pain · Kaleb Tiago Castro

68 bars, 4:21, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 9 and 11-13, and 1 more place -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 62 BPM
PLEASURE FOR PAIN · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 17, 18, 19, 29, 49 and 7 more.

LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 62 BPM
BARS 17-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BARS 57-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 11 sections: 41 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-44.

CHORUS
PART S3
PART Q
PART T
PART Q
PART S
10 groovesAQSTS3+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pleasure for Pain?

62 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Pleasure for Pain hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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 Pleasure for Pain?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 17, 18, 19, 29, 49 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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