Bulls On Parade · Rage Against The Machine

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25, 34-41 and 54-61 -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BULLS ON PARADE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 53, 69 and 81.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 12 sections: 59 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-25.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEBFCD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bulls On Parade?

85 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 Bulls On Parade hard to play on drums?

55 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Bulls On Parade?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 53, 69 and 81.

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