Toxic Waltz · Exodus

214 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-15, and 26 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
TOXIC WALTZ · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 20, 25, 41, 57, 61 and 19 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

214 bars across 10 sections: 180 keep time, 25 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 127-172.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDVNACX+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Toxic Waltz?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Toxic Waltz hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 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.

How many fills are in Toxic Waltz?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 20, 25, 41, 57, 61 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED
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