Bullets · MANAPART

117 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 41-43, and 5 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BULLETS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 13 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 16 sections: 77 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-89.

PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART T
PART O
PART H
OUTRO 2
12 groovesMHJOF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bullets?

145 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 Bullets hard to play on drums?

62 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 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 Bullets?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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