Bulletproof · Godsmack

59 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-13 and 24-30 -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BULLETPROOF · BARS 7-8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 31, 37, 40, 41, 42 and 6 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 40-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 8 sections: 39 keep time, 12 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-14.

PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesIES1S3S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bulletproof?

81 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?

53 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 31, 37, 40, 41, 42 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 59 BARS ANALYSED
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