Side Of A Bullet · Nickelback

97 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 14 and 16-28, and 5 more places -- 50.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
SIDE OF A BULLET · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 36, 68, 72, 76 and 80.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 9 sections: 56 keep time, 7 are fills and 24 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-88.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
PART E
PART F
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFEJOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Side Of A Bullet?

138 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 Side Of A Bullet hard to play on drums?

54 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?

97 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Side Of A Bullet?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 36, 68, 72, 76 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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