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Bitch (2025) · Meredith Brooks

Bitch (2025) · Meredith Brooks
EXERCISE 13 OF 42
Groove G -- Part G
68 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART A
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHAFEI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bitch (2025) on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44, snare through bars 45-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56 and snare through bars 57-60, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-44, 73-76 and 81-84, and 1 more place -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Bitch (2025) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 50, 54, 61 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- H, A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-29 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-45 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bitch (2025)?

97 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 Bitch (2025) hard to play on drums?

47 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Bitch (2025)?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 50, 54, 61 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED