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Bullet Ants · To The Last Breath

Bullet Ants · To The Last Breath
EXERCISE 3 OF 59
2-bar fill at bar 82
52 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART Z
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAUZLD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bullet Ants on drums

147 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-43, snare through bars 44-62, silence through bars 63-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-83, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 9 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------x-----|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-------|
SD |--x---x---x---f-|
BD |x---xx--x-------|
Bullet Ants -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 25, 29, 33 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- A, U -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-84 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bullet Ants?

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

Is Bullet Ants hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Bullet Ants?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 25, 29, 33 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED