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Bullets · MANAPART

EXERCISE 11 OF 60
Join Part S2 to Verse (bars 7-9)
62 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, VERSE
PART S2
VERSE
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bullets on drums

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

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40 and snare through bars 41-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- H, M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-20 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Verse and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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