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Side Of A Bullet · Nickelback

EXERCISE 34 OF 34
Play the whole song with the record
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
PART E
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFEJOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Side Of A Bullet on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-32, snare through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-76, snare through bars 77-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-97.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Side Of A Bullet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-81 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-66 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-73 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 67-92 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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