Poisonous Flowers of Violence · White Ward

219 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 9:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
9:35
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 131-142, 149-153 and 178-188, and 1 more place -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
POISONOUS FLOWERS OF VIOLENCE · BAR 131
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 33, 34 and 25 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 19-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

219 bars across 20 sections: 136 keep time, 31 are fills, 15 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-153.

PART D
PART K
PART K
PART AH
PART AR
CHORUS
PART AP
CHORUS 2
16 groovesAYKAPARD+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Poisonous Flowers of Violence?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Poisonous Flowers of Violence hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 9:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Poisonous Flowers of Violence?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 33, 34 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED
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