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Theatre Of Pain · Blind Guardian

EXERCISE 22 OF 36
Join Chorus to Part L (bars 43-45)
108 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART L
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGLNDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Theatre Of Pain on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-42, toms through bars 43-44, ride through bars 45-54, hi-hat through bars 55-104 and ride through bars 105-114, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-18, 23-30 and 35-42, and 15 more places -- 33.3% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Theatre Of Pain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 19, 20, 21 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- G, N -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-45 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-63 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 11 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Theatre Of Pain?

122 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 Theatre Of Pain hard to play on drums?

49 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 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 Theatre Of Pain?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 19, 20, 21 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED