Worthless · Bullet For My Valentine

195 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 181 BPM, 3:14 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 59 more places -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 181 BPM
WORTHLESS · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 63, 64, 108, 115, 116, 135 and 7 more.

LOOP · 181 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 135 · LANDS ON BAR 136 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 13 sections: 84 keep time, 13 are fills, 80 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-106.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART D
OUTRO 2
7 groovesABDFJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Worthless?

181 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Worthless hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Worthless?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 63, 64, 108, 115, 116, 135 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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