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Poison · Alice Cooper

EXERCISE 1 OF 72
Groove D -- Part D
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PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART X
PART J
PART AH
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFXDJV+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Poison on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-35, ride through bars 36-43, hi-hat through bars 44-52 and toms through bars 53-54, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 67 and 69, and 4 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Poison -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 26, 27, 35, 53, 54 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- D, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-88 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Poison?

118 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 Poison hard to play on drums?

58 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 Poison?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 26, 27, 35, 53, 54 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED