The Poison · Bullet For My Valentine

169 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13 and 17, and 19 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
THE POISON · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 22, 29 and 31 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 10 sections: 99 keep time, 37 are fills, 20 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 136-142.

CHORUS
PART O
PART U
PART Z
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDUOZA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Poison?

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 Poison hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Poison?

12 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 22, 29 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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