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Pray for Plagues (2026) · Bring me the Horizon

EXERCISE 13 OF 81
Groove O -- Part O
40 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART AG
PART AB
PART AZ
PART AW
PART BG
16 groovesLAWVBGAT+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 16
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pray for Plagues (2026) on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-20, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 90-92, 94-96 and 153-156 -- 6.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    90
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x-------------------|
Pray for Plagues (2026) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- AT, BG -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-13 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-53 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part V and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part AG -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pray for Plagues (2026)?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Pray for Plagues (2026) hard to play on drums?

62 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Pray for Plagues (2026)?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED