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Bloody Valentine · Machine Gun Kelly

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove A -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bloody Valentine on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-84, snare through bars 85-99, toms through bars 100-102 and snare through bars 103-135.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------------|
Bloody Valentine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-78 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 83-93 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 91-97 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 97-111 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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