Poison Was The Cure · Megadeth

114 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-51, and 6 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
POISON WAS THE CURE · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 40, 44, 52, 56, 60, 62 and 15 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 25 sections: 74 keep time, 21 are fills, 3 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-51.

CHORUS
PART L
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesHADWL+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Poison Was The Cure?

140 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 Was The Cure hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Was The Cure?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 40, 44, 52, 56, 60, 62 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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