A Place Where You Belong · Bullet For My Valentine

169 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 23 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
A PLACE WHERE YOU BELONG · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 36, 44 and 19 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 7 sections: 118 keep time, 25 are fills, 9 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 138-147.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHS1S6S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Place Where You Belong?

132 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 A Place Where You Belong hard to play on drums?

49 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 A Place Where You Belong?

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 36, 44 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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