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Toxic Fire · Blood Christ

Toxic Fire · Blood Christ
EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART T
OUTRO
BREAK 2
7 groovesHRS10BL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Toxic Fire on drums

90 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:03
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, silence through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-37, toms through bars 38-39, hi-hat through bars 40-56 and toms through bars 57-58, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 15-22 and 32-37, and 2 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Toxic Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-27 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-38 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-52 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-72 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Toxic Fire?

190 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 Toxic Fire hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED