The king of pain · Black Veil Brides

11 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 0:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
11
LENGTH
0:21
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4 and 6-8 -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE KING OF PAIN · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 5, 9 and 11.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

11 bars: 6 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The king of pain?

120 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 The king of pain hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

11 bars, about 0:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The king of pain?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 5, 9 and 11.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 11 BARS ANALYSED
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