RAT POISON · Without A Face

84 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:03
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49, 51 and 53, and 5 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
RAT POISON · BARS 69-70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 12 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 12 sections: 42 keep time, 18 are fills, 12 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-45.

PART G
PART D
PART C
PART O
PART R
PART V
PART Z
OUTRO
10 groovesS11GDVR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is RAT POISON?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is RAT POISON hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 RAT POISON?

15 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 12 more.

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