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Bullets For Bella · Katywentmissing

Bullets For Bella · Katywentmissing
EXERCISE 7 OF 43
Fill at bar 8
36 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
PART D
PART G
PART K
PART O
PART R
CHORUS
BREAK 2
OUTRO
8 groovesTDOS9G+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bullets For Bella on drums

103 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-64, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 19-24 and 32 -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 26, 28 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D, T -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-40 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bullets For Bella?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bullets For Bella hard to play on drums?

54 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?

103 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Bullets For Bella?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 26, 28 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED