Hand Of Blood · Bullet For My Valentine

165 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-34, 68-74 and 108-113 -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 188 BPM
HAND OF BLOOD · BARS 28-29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 19, 20, 50, 55, 56, 57 and 23 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 55-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 23 sections: 96 keep time, 29 are fills, 6 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-40.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART Y
14 groovesIMYLT+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hand Of Blood?

188 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 Hand Of Blood hard to play on drums?

64 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Hand Of Blood?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 19, 20, 50, 55, 56, 57 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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