Toxic · Britney Spears

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

PopElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 10-16 and 23-32, and 3 more places -- 59.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 143 BPM
TOXIC · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 13 sections: 70 keep time, 37 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-94.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S5
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART S10
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
9 groovesABS10S5C+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

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?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 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 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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