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.

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

TEMPO

192 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

168

LENGTH

3:30

DIFFICULTY

61/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, snare through bars 16-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, snare through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-38, and 27 more changes after that.

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--xxx-xx--xx|

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

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- F, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
5. Bars 29-38 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Bars 28-57 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 66-83 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.