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toothache · bunii

EXERCISE 21 OF 24
Run B3 · Outro (bars 85-110)
89 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBIS1S4S6+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play toothache on drums

131 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, ride through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22, ride through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-28, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-14, 17-22 and 49-54, and 2 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|--x---x-x-----x-|
toothache -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 82, 83, 99 and 115.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B, G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-65 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is toothache?

180 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 toothache hard to play on drums?

46 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 toothache?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 82, 83, 99 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED