Bullet With Butterfly Wings · Smashing Pumpkins

135 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-15 and 42-54 -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BULLET WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 26, 29, 35, 38, 65, 68 and 14 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 76-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 11 sections: 89 keep time, 20 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-22.

CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART Q
PART V
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCIEVQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bullet With Butterfly Wings?

120 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 With Butterfly Wings hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 With Butterfly Wings?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 26, 29, 35, 38, 65, 68 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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