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Bull In The Heather · Sonic Youth

EXERCISE 4 OF 12
Groove C -- Part C
54 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
PART D
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART D
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBS1ACD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bull In The Heather on drums

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

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-39, hi-hat through bars 40-48, silence through bars 49-51, hi-hat through bars 52-55 and snare through bars 56-81, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-----x-x-x---x-|
Bull In The Heather -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 44-90 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED