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Bullet In The Head · Rage Against The Machine

EXERCISE 9 OF 49
Run A2 · Part A (bars 52-55)
113 / 214 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART U
PART X
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBPUEA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bullet In The Head on drums

214 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 5:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-51, snare through bars 52-53, hi-hat through bars 54-82, snare through bars 83-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-121, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-40, 52 and 56-62, and 2 more places -- 33.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-------x---|x---x-------o---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|x-----x---------|
HF |--------x-------|----------------|
Bullet In The Head -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 42, 43, 49, 50, 54, 55 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 52-122 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 121-132 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bullet In The Head?

163 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 In The Head hard to play on drums?

57 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 In The Head?

5 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 42, 43, 49, 50, 54, 55 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED