Ashes Of The Innocent · Bullet For My Valentine

181 bars at 226 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
226 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 40 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 226 BPM
ASHES OF THE INNOCENT · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 47, 48, 128, 139, 140 and 3 more.

LOOP · 226 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 226 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 226 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129
LOOP · 226 BPM
BARS 139-140 · LANDS ON BAR 141 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 10 sections: 58 keep time, 9 are fills, 104 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEDAS9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ashes Of The Innocent?

226 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 Ashes Of The Innocent hard to play on drums?

50 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Ashes Of The Innocent?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 47, 48, 128, 139, 140 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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