Bulletproof · Godsmack

59 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20, 22-23 and 36, and 2 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BULLETPROOF · BARS 22-23
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 17, 18, 19 and 7 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 4-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 59
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 11 sections: 32 keep time, 13 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-50.

CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBKAFX+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bulletproof?

82 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?

59 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 17, 18, 19 and 7 more.

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