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bite my tongue · Wilt

EXERCISE 6 OF 37
Groove D -- Part D
17 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART Q, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play bite my tongue on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, toms through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, ride through bars 29-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-42, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----xx-x--x-x|
bite my tongue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, J (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-20 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-62 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-61 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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