Take It Out On Me · Bullet For My Valentine

278 bars at 234 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
234 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
278
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-28 and 30-31, and 7 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 234 BPM
TAKE IT OUT ON ME · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 72, 73, 113, 129, 138 and 15 more.

LOOP · 234 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 234 BPM
BARS 72-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 234 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 234 BPM
BAR 169 · LANDS ON BAR 170

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

278 bars across 26 sections: 124 keep time, 22 are fills, 101 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 178-192.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART V
PART AB
15 groovesHPABVU+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take It Out On Me?

234 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 Take It Out On Me 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

278 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Take It Out On Me?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 72, 73, 113, 129, 138 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 278 BARS ANALYSED
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