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Toxic Waltz · Exodus

EXERCISE 11 OF 56
Groove H
125 / 214 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Toxic Waltz on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-16, ride through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-40, ride through bars 41-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-90, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------x-------x---|
Toxic Waltz -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-58 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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