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Surrounded by Pain (V2) · Guilt Trip

EXERCISE 17 OF 73
Join Chorus to Part Q (bars 33-35)
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0 / 73 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART Q
PART A
CHORUS
PART Q
PART T
PART Q
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART S10
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKQANAT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Surrounded by Pain (V2) on drums

139 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-38, snare through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-62, snare through bars 63-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-85, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 10 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x---x-|
Surrounded by Pain (V2) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 30, 37 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, W -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-31 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-43 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 31-51 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part AA -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA and Part AB -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Surrounded by Pain (V2)?

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

Is Surrounded by Pain (V2) hard to play on drums?

60 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 Surrounded by Pain (V2)?

18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 30, 37 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED