Suffocating Under Words Of Sorrow · Bullet For My Valentine

168 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 20-25 and 52-57, and 3 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
SUFFOCATING UNDER WORDS OF SORROW · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 19 sections: 139 keep time, 2 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-28.

CHORUS
PART G
PART M
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART V
PART M
OUTRO
11 groovesFGMOV+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suffocating Under Words Of Sorrow?

192 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 Suffocating Under Words Of Sorrow hard to play on drums?

61 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 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Suffocating Under Words Of Sorrow?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.

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