Poison Girl · HIM

117 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 36 more places -- 35.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
POISON GIRL · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 115 and 116.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 115-116 · LANDS ON BAR 117 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 5 sections: 102 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-48.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesEIDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Poison Girl?

126 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 Girl hard to play on drums?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Poison Girl?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 115 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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