supress the toxins · sillyserpent

120 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-26 and 56, and 4 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SUPRESS THE TOXINS · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 11, 14, 17, 18, 19, 23 and 41 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 17-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 12 sections: 31 keep time, 47 are fills, 27 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-84.

PART S1
PART B
PART K
CHORUS
PART AJ
PART AT
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesTKAJANAT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is supress the toxins?

150 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 supress the toxins hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 15 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 supress the toxins?

25 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 11, 14, 17, 18, 19, 23 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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