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Bitch · Toxic Holocaust

Bitch · Toxic Holocaust
EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART Q
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFADQS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bitch on drums

111 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-35, ride through bars 36-42 and toms through bars 43-50, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-32 and 34, and 4 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 11, 20, 28, 33, 39, 43 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- F, Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-46 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-55 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-93 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bitch?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bitch hard to play on drums?

62 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bitch?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 11, 20, 28, 33, 39, 43 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED