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The Poison · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 6 OF 59
Join Part A to Chorus (bars 6-8)
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0 / 59 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART O
PART U
PART Z
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDUOZA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Poison on drums

169 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-10, hi-hat through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16 and snare through bars 17-18, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13 and 17, and 19 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
The Poison -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 22, 29 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- D, O -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-144 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Poison?

185 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 The Poison hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Poison?

12 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 22, 29 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED