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Poison Heart · HIM

EXERCISE 28 OF 40
Join Part L to Part M (bars 88-90)
118 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART M
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Poison Heart on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-15, hi-hat through bars 16-17 and snare through bars 18-25, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-69 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-85 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 86-106 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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