Bitch · Meredith Ann Brooks

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-30, 39-49 and 51-69, and 4 more places -- 64.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BITCH · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 22, 38, 102 and 103.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 102-103 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 4 sections: 96 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-101.

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

Questions

What BPM is Bitch?

98 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?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 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?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 22, 38, 102 and 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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