Bitch · Dope

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

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

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

90

LENGTH

2:57

DIFFICULTY

53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-29, toms through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-52, toms through bars 53-54, hi-hat through bars 55-56 and snare through bars 57-64, and 3 more changes after that.

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.

    22               23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x-----x-x-----|
HH |----o-o-----o-o-|----o-o-----o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-----xxx-xx--x-|

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

It cuts the song into 31 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, N -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Bars 30-57 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. Bars 53-69 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.