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Toxic [Rock Metal Cover] by ‪@metaluniverse1 · Britney Spears

EXERCISE 3 OF 53
Groove E -- Part E
19 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
PART E
PART S4
PART G
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART AD
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesKEGON+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Toxic [Rock Metal Cover] by ‪@metaluniverse1 on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:48 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
136
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-13, silence through bars 14-27, snare through bars 28-35 and silence through bars 36-38, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 34 and 47, and 7 more places -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------------------------------------------------------x-------|
Toxic [Rock Metal Cover] by ‪@metaluniverse1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 54, 79, 87 and 112.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- J, O -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part S4 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-40 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-43 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 43-88 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Toxic [Rock Metal Cover] by ‪@metaluniverse1?

143 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 [Rock Metal Cover] by ‪@metaluniverse1 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 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 [Rock Metal Cover] by ‪@metaluniverse1?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 54, 79, 87 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED