Hit The Floor · Bullet For My Valentine

166 bars at 189 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
189 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45, 53 and 65, and 16 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 189 BPM
HIT THE FLOOR · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 44, 52, 84, 92, 116 and 4 more.

LOOP · 189 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 189 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 189 BPM
BAR 146 · LANDS ON BAR 147
LOOP · 189 BPM
BAR 150 · LANDS ON BAR 151
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 19 sections: 114 keep time, 10 are fills, 17 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 151-166.

PART D
PART K
CHORUS
PART D
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesODTKN+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hit The Floor?

189 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 Hit The Floor hard to play on drums?

53 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?

166 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Hit The Floor?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 44, 52, 84, 92, 116 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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