Bull In The Heather · Sonic Youth

97 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-37 and 56-79 -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BULL IN THE HEATHER · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 11 sections: 65 keep time and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-37.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
7 groovesBS1ACD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bull In The Heather?

130 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 Bull In The Heather hard to play on drums?

34 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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