Toxicity [E Standard Tuning] · System of a Down

144 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 116 BPM, 3:44 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 6 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
TOXICITY [E STANDARD TUNING] · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 10, 14, 22, 24, 48, 50 and 11 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 8 sections: 105 keep time, 17 are fills, 4 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-47.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJNDRS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Toxicity [E Standard Tuning]?

116 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Toxicity [E Standard Tuning] hard to play on drums?

61 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Toxicity [E Standard Tuning]?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 10, 14, 22, 24, 48, 50 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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