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The Last Fight · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 9 OF 46
Join Part C to Part E (bars 5-7)
127 / 196 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART E
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART E
5 groovesJEHTCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Last Fight on drums

196 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-21, toms through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-139 and kick and crashes through bars 140-143, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-31 and 34-36, and 29 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|
The Last Fight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 9, 56, 57, 65, 106 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- J, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Last Fight?

185 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 The Last Fight hard to play on drums?

56 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 The Last Fight?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 9, 56, 57, 65, 106 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED