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Bitch · Meredith Ann Brooks

Bitch · Meredith Ann Brooks
EXERCISE 10 OF 16
Join Chorus to Outro (bars 29-31)
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0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bitch on drums

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

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
65/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o-------o---|
SD |-g-gXg-g-g-gXg-g|
BD |X--x--x-X-------|
HF |------g-------g-|
Bitch -- 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 22, 38, 102 and 103.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-50 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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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