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BITE ME (Normal Pitch) · AJ Dispirito

BITE ME (Normal Pitch) · AJ Dispirito
EXERCISE 29 OF 54
Join Part AM to Part A (bars 62-64)
65 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AM, PART A
PART S2
CHORUS
PART AI
PART AM
PART A
CHORUS 2
8 groovesOAMS2AAI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BITE ME (Normal Pitch) on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 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
96
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-13, toms through bars 14-15, snare through bars 16-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-38, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18 and 76-78 -- 4.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
BITE ME (Normal Pitch) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 52 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI, BR -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-41 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-48 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part AM and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-76 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is BITE ME (Normal Pitch)?

120 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 BITE ME (Normal Pitch) hard to play on drums?

55 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 BITE ME (Normal Pitch)?

18 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED