Hand Of Blood (The Poison) · Bullet For My Valentine

165 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-35, 37 and 39, and 6 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
HAND OF BLOOD (THE POISON) · BARS 27-28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 19, 20, 49, 50, 52, 55 and 27 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 55-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

3 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: 90 keep time, 33 are fills, 12 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-41.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART V
PART Z
PART S20
14 groovesHKZJU+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hand Of Blood (The Poison)?

185 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 (The Poison) hard to play on drums?

60 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 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 (The Poison)?

7 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 19, 20, 49, 50, 52, 55 and 27 more.

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