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Ballistic · Harlott

Ballistic · Harlott
EXERCISE 17 OF 37
Fill at bar 42 (a small one)
50 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART M
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
PART M
PART R
PART G
PART U
OUTRO
9 groovesDGMRV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ballistic on drums

73 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 1:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
1:11
DIFFICULTY
82/100

snare through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-18, toms through bars 19-21, snare through bars 22-24 and toms through bars 25-26, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-17, 30-33 and 55-58 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--x---x---x---x---------x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x-----xx-xx---------|
Ballistic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 39 and 42.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- G, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-43 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ballistic?

250 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ballistic hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 1:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Ballistic?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 39 and 42.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED