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Bitches Brew · ††† (Crosses)

Bitches Brew · ††† (Crosses)
EXERCISE 14 OF 15
Run F1 · Outro 2 (bars 65-76)
73 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAFS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bitches Brew on drums

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

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-61, silence through bars 62-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-76.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-72 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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