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Hit The Floor · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 29 OF 56
Run O1 · Chorus (bars 45-55)
119 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hit The Floor on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
189 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-98, snare through bars 99-102, ride through bars 103-106, snare through bars 107-110 and ride through bars 111-114, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|
Hit The Floor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- N, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-46 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Break 2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-82 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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