Death By A Thousand Cuts · Bullet For My Valentine

195 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-38 and 41-43, and 6 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 202 BPM
DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 48, 52, 54, 55, 56, 60 and 71 more.

LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 202 BPM
BARS 54-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BARS 60-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 25 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 12 sections: 79 keep time, 77 are fills, 16 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-22.

PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesSHAJBF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death By A Thousand Cuts?

202 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 Death By A Thousand Cuts 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Death By A Thousand Cuts?

16 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 48, 52, 54, 55, 56, 60 and 71 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Bullet For My Valentine drum parts

EVERY BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →