TOOTHACHE · LOCKED SHUT

85 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 1:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61, 63 and 65, and 3 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
TOOTHACHE · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 11, 12, 16, 19, 28 and 7 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 7 sections: 34 keep time, 14 are fills, 30 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-10.

PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLUHDC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is TOOTHACHE?

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 TOOTHACHE hard to play on drums?

48 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?

85 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 11, 12, 16, 19, 28 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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