bite my tongue · Wilt

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-27, 46 and 53-54, and 1 more place -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BITE MY TONGUE · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 40, 48, 52 and 7 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 29-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 9 sections: 32 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-26.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART A
PART Q
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIQALS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is bite my tongue?

78 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 my tongue hard to play on drums?

49 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 my tongue?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 40, 48, 52 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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