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.

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

TEMPO

145 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

170

LENGTH

4:38

DIFFICULTY

53/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-18, hi-hat through bars 19-24, snare through bars 25-26, ride through bars 27-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-32, and 34 more changes after that.

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.

    53
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|

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

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 -- R, P, H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
2. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Bars 13-74 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
6. Bars 33-135 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.