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RAT POISON · Without A Face

RAT POISON · Without A Face
EXERCISE 14 OF 60
Join Break to Part G (bars 1-3)
47 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK, PART G
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play RAT POISON on drums

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.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:03
DIFFICULTY
88/100

ride through bar 1, snare through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-26 and snare through bars 27-33, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    69                               70
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------|x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x-------------------x---x---|----x---------------------------|
RAT POISON -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- V -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Break -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Break and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 1-17 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part G and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED