Spirit of Poison · Car Bomb

207 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17, 22-23 and 40-41, and 3 more places -- 6.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 230 BPM
SPIRIT OF POISON · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 14 and 34 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 19 sections: 98 keep time, 40 are fills, 21 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-134.

PART M
PART X
PART AJ
PART AP
CHORUS
PART BU
PART CC
BREAK
14 groovesBAS19AJBM+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spirit of Poison?

230 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 Spirit of Poison hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 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 Spirit of Poison?

20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 14 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
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