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Bulletproof · Five Finger Death Punch

EXERCISE 14 OF 35
Run F1 · Part F (bars 18-22)
77 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesANCLFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bulletproof on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-23, snare through bars 24-47, toms through bars 48-54, hi-hat through bars 55-69 and snare through bars 70-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 25-31 and 33-39, and 4 more places -- 51.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 47 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-72 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bulletproof?

147 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 Bulletproof hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 47 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED