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BiteMe · AJ Dispirito

BiteMe · AJ Dispirito
EXERCISE 25 OF 63
Run M1 · Chorus (bars 15-25)
50 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART AB
PART AF
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMEAIABAF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BiteMe on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:05 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
94
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-11, snare through bars 12-47 and kick and crashes through bars 48-54, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 18 and 55-58, and 1 more place -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
BiteMe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- M, E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-30 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 26-40 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-55 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is BiteMe?

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 BiteMe 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 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 BiteMe?

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED