Billion Dollar Babies · Alice Cooper

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 36, and 12 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BILLION DOLLAR BABIES · BAR 63
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 16 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 31-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 7 sections: 47 keep time, 22 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-56.

PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesLAHS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Billion Dollar Babies?

91 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 Billion Dollar Babies hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Billion Dollar Babies?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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