Bulletproof ... I Wish I Was · Radiohead

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-24, 26-28 and 30-34, and 2 more places -- 48.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BULLETPROOF ... I WISH I WAS · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 51.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 5 sections: 50 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-34.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bulletproof ... I Wish I Was?

80 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 ... I Wish I Was hard to play on drums?

40 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 ... I Wish I Was?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 51.

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