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Bullet With Butterfly Wings · Smashing Pumpkins

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 52 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bullet With Butterfly Wings on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bars 3-26, ride through bars 27-39, toms through bars 40-65, ride through bars 66-95, toms through bars 96-98 and silence through bars 99-108, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
T1 |----------x-----|
T2 |--------------x-|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Bullet With Butterfly Wings -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-72 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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