← SONGS

Ashes Of The Innocent · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 21 OF 34
Join Part E to Part A (bars 131-133)
162 / 181 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART E
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEDAS9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ashes Of The Innocent on drums

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

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

TEMPO
226 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-146, toms through bars 147-149, silence through bars 150-152 and snare through bars 153-181.

The beat

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.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----x-----------|
Ashes Of The Innocent -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-49 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 79-132 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 129-149 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 147-181 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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