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BITE THE CURB · Bodyshot & Apex Predator

BITE THE CURB · Bodyshot & Apex Predator
EXERCISE 14 OF 51
Groove I
58 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART G
PART N
PART P
PART U
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBUGNV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BITE THE CURB on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-6, snare through bars 7-20, hi-hat through bars 21-26, snare through bars 27-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-39, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-17, 27-29 and 31-33, and 3 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11                               12
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---------------x---x---|----x---------------------------|
BITE THE CURB -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 9, 42, 44 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- G, N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-38 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is BITE THE CURB?

150 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 THE CURB hard to play on drums?

60 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 THE CURB?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 9, 42, 44 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED