Bulletproof Heart · My Chemical Romance

165 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25-26, and 29 more places -- 51.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BULLETPROOF HEART · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 36, 44, 51, 52, 60, 68 and 23 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 9 sections: 102 keep time, 29 are fills, 2 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-26.

COUNT-IN
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS1FTS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bulletproof Heart?

130 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 Heart 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bulletproof Heart?

18 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 36, 44, 51, 52, 60, 68 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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