Bite Supply · Blooming Mechanica

100 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 35-37, and 4 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BITE SUPPLY · BARS 27-28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 11, 12, 15, 20, 23 and 8 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 6 sections: 84 keep time, 15 are fills, 5 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-116.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKZFBX+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bite Supply?

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 Supply hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Supply?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 11, 12, 15, 20, 23 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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