ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bullshittery on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 120 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 87
LENGTH: 2:54
DIFFICULTY: 74/100

ride through bars 1-9, silence through bars 10-13, ride through bars 14-22, toms through bars 23-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-27 and ride through bars 28-32, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-31 and 46-53 -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28                                               29
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
RD |------------x-----------x-----------x-----x-----|x-----x-----x--x--x-----x--x--x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x--x--x--x--x-----x--x--x--x--x--x--x-----|x-----x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x-----|

Bullshittery -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 66.

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.

The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
Through Part A and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part D and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 23-28 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 42-57 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
and 3 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Bullshittery?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Bullshittery hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Bullshittery?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED