Poison · Bell Biv Devoe

119 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 11-33 and 43-65, and 1 more place -- 60.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 114 BPM
POISON · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 8 sections: 103 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-33.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS7AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Poison?

114 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 how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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