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A Place Where You Belong · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 17 OF 30
Fill at bar 59 (a small one)
149 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHS1S6S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Place Where You Belong on drums

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

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-100, snare through bars 101-116 and hi-hat through bars 117-118, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-45 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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