Alone · Bullet For My Valentine

294 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 7:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalHip Hop / Reggae150 BPM and up
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
294
LENGTH
7:28
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 35-41 and 44-50, and 7 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 167 BPM
ALONE · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 9, 13, 16, 17, 22, 23 and 42 more.

LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BARS 22-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

294 bars across 15 sections: 179 keep time, 49 are fills, 42 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 160-174.

PART S2
PART J
PART Q
CHORUS
PART J
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART Q
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesMJQS2S15+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alone?

167 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 Alone hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

294 bars, about 7:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Alone?

10 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 9, 13, 16, 17, 22, 23 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 294 BARS ANALYSED
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