Venom · Bullet For My Valentine

138 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 31-33 and 35-37, and 16 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
VENOM · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 30, 34, 38, 42, 54, 66 and 17 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 8 sections: 103 keep time, 23 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-21.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBMHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Venom?

148 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Venom 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Venom?

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 30, 34, 38, 42, 54, 66 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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