Bullet Holes · Bush

69 bars, 3:41, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 20-22 and 24, and 7 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BULLET HOLES · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 16, 19, 27, 34, 38 and 11 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 8 sections: 42 keep time and 17 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART C
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACMRGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bullet Holes?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Bullet Holes hard to play on drums?

61 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?

69 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bullet Holes?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 16, 19, 27, 34, 38 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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