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Death By A Thousand Cuts · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove H -- Part H
0 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death By A Thousand Cuts on drums

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.

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
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-35 and snare through bars 36-40, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x--xx-x-x---x-|
Death By A Thousand Cuts -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- H, S -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-76 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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