DRUMY
Bullet With Butterfly Wings drums: tempo, difficulty and parts
Bullet With Butterfly Wings by Smashing Pumpkins is 120 BPM and runs 4:19: 136 bars and 1,631 notes played on the kick, floor tom, snare, ride, crash, tom 2, tom 1 and hi-hat.
The drum part is rated Medium — comfortable once the groove is steady, and the fills are where it asks more.
It has 9 fills, its longest section is the Verse 1 (0:28) and the hi-hat opens as well as closes.
Song map
- Verse 1
- Pre-Chorus 1
- Chorus 1
- Verse 2
- Pre-Chorus 2
- Chorus 2
- Break
- Middle Eight
- Interlude
- Chorus 3
- Bridge
- Outro
How to play Bullet With Butterfly Wings on drums
- Plug in your electronic drum kit over USB — or play on the keyboard.
- Press play. The notes of Bullet With Butterfly Wings come down in time with the recording. Play it in Beatfall or read it as drum notation.
- Slow it down. Take the Fill at bar 79 at 0.5× or 0.75× with a click and a count-in, then bring it up to 120 BPM.
- Check every hit — on time, early or late — before you record your Bullet With Butterfly Wings drum cover.
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