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Bulletproof · Attila

EXERCISE 7 OF 75
Groove J -- Outro
68 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
PART B
PART H
PART A
CHORUS
PART Q
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART AB
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
11 groovesCBAABH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bulletproof on drums

172 bars at 197 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
197 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-56, hi-hat through bars 57-69 and snare through bars 70-90, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 34 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|
Bulletproof -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 24, 28 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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, C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part A -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part U -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bulletproof?

197 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 Bulletproof hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 12 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bulletproof?

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 24, 28 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED