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TOOTHACHE · LOCKED SHUT

EXERCISE 23 OF 45
Join Part D to Part H (bars 15-17)
68 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART H
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play TOOTHACHE on drums

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.

48 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
85
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
48/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-7, snare through bars 8-12, toms through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-39, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- U, K, L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-37 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 26-45 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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