Knives · Bullet For My Valentine

142 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35-37 and 53-55, and 7 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
KNIVES · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26 and 49 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 9 sections: 56 keep time, 55 are fills and 24 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
CHORUS
PART O
PART T
PART AC
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEACOTA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Knives?

136 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Knives hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Knives?

16 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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