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Bullets · No Use For A Name

Bullets · No Use For A Name
EXERCISE 15 OF 28
Fill at bar 44 and 76 (a small one)
77 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDLES1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bullets on drums

101 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 1:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
1:53
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-36, hi-hat through bars 37-98 and snare through bars 99-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 35 and 37-43, and 5 more places -- 57.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 36, 44, 51, 60 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-38 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bullets?

215 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 hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 1:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Bullets?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 36, 44, 51, 60 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED