Bitch · Dope

90 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-29, 45-52 and 65-68, and 1 more place -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BITCH · BARS 22-23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 31 and 9 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 10 sections: 61 keep time, 15 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-90.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLPGBN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bitch?

120 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 hard to play on drums?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Bitch?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 31 and 9 more.

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