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Poison Girl · HIM

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove D -- Part D
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COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEIDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Poison Girl on drums

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

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-88, toms through bars 89-92, hi-hat through bars 93-114 and snare through bars 115-117.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-------x-----|
Poison Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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