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Billion Dollar Babies · Alice Cooper

EXERCISE 2 OF 38
Groove H -- Part H
15 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesLAHS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Billion Dollar Babies on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-31, hi-hat through bars 32-54, toms through bars 55-56 and snare through bars 57-58, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    63
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----x---x-----x---x-----x-------|
SD |----x---x-----x---x-----x---x---|
T1 |------------------------------x-|
BD |x-----------x---------x---------|
Billion Dollar Babies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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