Bloody Valentine · Machine Gun Kelly

135 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-23 and 25-31, and 6 more places -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BLOODY VALENTINE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 58, 66, 70 and 11 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 83-84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 12 sections: 104 keep time, 17 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART O
PART R
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesATEWM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bloody Valentine?

160 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 Bloody Valentine hard to play on drums?

55 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?

135 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bloody Valentine?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 58, 66, 70 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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