Poison Heart · HIM

127 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 18-23 and 44-49, and 2 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 147 BPM
POISON HEART · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 25, 33, 59, 67, 73 and 4 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 11 sections: 97 keep time, 11 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART L
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesECDLM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Poison Heart?

147 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 Heart hard to play on drums?

53 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Heart?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 25, 33, 59, 67, 73 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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