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10 Years Today · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 18 OF 62
Groove Q -- Part Q
97 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, PART U, PART X
CHORUS
PART Q
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART X
PART AB
PART Q
PART X
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCXUQM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 10 Years Today on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 2-21, snare through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-29, snare through bars 30-33, toms through bars 34-35 and ride through bars 36-49, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
10 Years Today -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- C, X -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part Q and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-95 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part X and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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