10 Years Today · Bullet For My Valentine

170 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7-8 and 11, and 7 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
10 YEARS TODAY · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 5, 12, 13, 25, 33 and 17 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 17 sections: 109 keep time, 23 are fills, 14 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-104.

CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AB
PART X
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCXUQM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 10 Years Today?

175 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 10 Years Today 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in 10 Years Today?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 5, 12, 13, 25, 33 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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