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Your Betrayal · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 20 OF 53
Groove M -- Part M
92 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART R
PART V
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesGMIVE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Your Betrayal on drums

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

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-24, toms through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32, snare through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40 and snare through bars 41-44, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33, and 28 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxx---xxxx|
Your Betrayal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 36, 64, 72, 100, 108 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-29 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-28 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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?

59 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 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Your Betrayal?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 36, 64, 72, 100, 108 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED