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Worthless · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 22 OF 34
Run J1 · Part J (bars 98-108)
166 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Worthless on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
41/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-62, toms through bars 63-76, hi-hat through bars 77-114, toms through bars 115-124 and hi-hat through bars 125-131, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-|
Worthless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- A, B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 63-93 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 90-109 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 98-140 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 134-157 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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