Betty, Booty's Bloody Roots · The Blind Cow

23 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 0:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
23
LENGTH
0:55
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7 and 9-14 -- 68.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BETTY, BOOTY'S BLOODY ROOTS · BARS 1-2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 8, 15 and 16.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

23 bars across 3 sections: 15 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

CHORUS
BREAK
3 groovesAS2S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Betty, Booty's Bloody Roots?

100 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 Betty, Booty's Bloody Roots hard to play on drums?

60 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

23 bars, about 0:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Betty, Booty's Bloody Roots?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 8, 15 and 16.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 23 BARS ANALYSED
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