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Poison · Bell Biv Devoe

Poison · Bell Biv Devoe
EXERCISE 10 OF 14
Join Part D to Chorus 3 (bars 71-73)
107 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Poison on drums

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

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-92, silence through bars 93-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-119.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-xxx-|
SD |----xxxx-x--xxx-|
BD |x---------x-----|
Poison -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
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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