Bitches Brew · ††† (Crosses)

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 7, and 10 more places -- 68.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BITCHES BREW · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 44, 60 and 76.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 3 sections: 68 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-43.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAFS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bitches Brew?

88 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 Bitches Brew hard to play on drums?

48 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Bitches Brew?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 44, 60 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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