Bittersweet Memories · Bullet For My Valentine

169 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-6, 9-14 and 45-50, and 9 more places -- 43.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BITTERSWEET MEMORIES · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 38, 40, 42, 52 and 18 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 10 sections: 88 keep time, 24 are fills, 43 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-35.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAGKS9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bittersweet Memories?

142 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 Bittersweet Memories hard to play on drums?

54 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bittersweet Memories?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 38, 40, 42, 52 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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