Prison Sex · Tool

117 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 22-24, and 2 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
PRISON SEX · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 32, 39, 40 and 28 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 12 sections: 67 keep time, 34 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-19.

PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART AH
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJDAHFAT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prison Sex?

112 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 Prison Sex hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Prison Sex?

11 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 32, 39, 40 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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