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"Toxic" 2 · Couch

EXERCISE 18 OF 51
Groove T
50 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R, PART U
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART U
PART L
PART S13
PART U
OUTRO
14 groovesMRUAVH+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Toxic" 2 on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
127
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-49, silence through bars 50-53, hi-hat through bars 54-78 and silence through bars 79-85, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-43, 71-75 and 105-106 -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x-xx-----|
"Toxic" 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 25, 37, 57 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part R and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 45-60 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AC -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is "Toxic" 2?

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 "Toxic" 2 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in "Toxic" 2?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 25, 37, 57 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED