🇺🇸 Your Betrayal · Bullet For My Valentine

162 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33, and 28 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 134 BPM
🇺🇸 YOUR BETRAYAL · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 36, 64, 72, 86, 100 and 7 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 19 sections: 120 keep time, 13 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 126-139.

PART C
PART G
PART N
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART Z
OUTRO
12 groovesIGZEJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 🇺🇸 Your Betrayal?

134 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 🇺🇸 Your Betrayal hard to play on drums?

52 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 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 🇺🇸 Your Betrayal?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 36, 64, 72, 86, 100 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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