4 Words (To Choke Upon) · Bullet For My Valentine

170 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 45 and 49, and 14 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
4 WORDS (TO CHOKE UPON) · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 5, 36, 42, 46, 48 and 19 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 28 sections: 83 keep time, 25 are fills, 33 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-15.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 4
18 groovesROFHB+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 4 Words (To Choke Upon)?

145 BPM, in 4/4, 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 4 Words (To Choke Upon) hard to play on drums?

53 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 4 Words (To Choke Upon)?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 5, 36, 42, 46, 48 and 19 more.

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