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BITE ME ft. Zephyrianna · AJ Dispirito, Zephyrianna

BITE ME ft. Zephyrianna · AJ Dispirito, Zephyrianna
EXERCISE 19 OF 70
Join Part G to Chorus (bars 14-16)
35 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART U
PART C
PART AE
PART AI
PART AL
PART AR
PART AZ
16 groovesMCAZARAI+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BITE ME ft. Zephyrianna on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-11, snare through bars 12-13, toms through bars 14-15, snare through bars 16-21 and hi-hat through bars 22-24, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4, 6 and 35-36, and 1 more place -- 6.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35                                               36
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----------|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----------x--------x--x--x--|
BD |x--------x--x--------x-----x--------x--------x--|---x--------x--------x-----x--------x-----------|
BITE ME ft. Zephyrianna -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 14, 15, 21, 34, 38 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AZ -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-16 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part U and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part AE -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is BITE ME ft. Zephyrianna?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 BITE ME ft. Zephyrianna hard to play on drums?

63 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 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 BITE ME ft. Zephyrianna?

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 14, 15, 21, 34, 38 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED