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Bullet Holes · Bush

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove C -- Part C
0 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bullet Holes on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-54, ride through bars 55-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-69.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx-----x--x----x|
Bullet Holes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- C, A -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-56 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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