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Bullet The Blue Sky · U2

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove C -- Part C
0 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 76 BARS LIT
PART B
PART C
PART F
PART C
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesKCJBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bullet The Blue Sky on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-54, ride through bars 55-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-169.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 60 more places -- 45% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Bullet The Blue Sky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 54, 74, 88, 89, 90 and 169.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, K -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-91 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bullet The Blue Sky?

144 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 Bullet The Blue Sky hard to play on drums?

46 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Bullet The Blue Sky?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 54, 74, 88, 89, 90 and 169.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED