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"Toxic" · a static lullaby

"Toxic" · a static lullaby
EXERCISE 6 OF 52
Groove A
53 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART Q
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesOHQJV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Toxic" on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, toms through bars 19-22, snare through bars 23-24 and toms through bars 25-34, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-41, 69-75 and 97-100, and 1 more place -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
"Toxic" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 34, 42, 50 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- O -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, V -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is "Toxic"?

143 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" hard to play on drums?

55 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 "Toxic"?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 34, 42, 50 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED