Bitten-off Tongue · SHITWORKERS

145 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 76-82, 85-90 and 131-141, and 2 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BITTEN-OFF TONGUE · BAR 76
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 67, 75, 83, 91, 117 and 11 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 12 sections: 93 keep time, 20 are fills and 18 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-58.

PART C
PART L
PART O
PART L
CHORUS
PART X
PART AA
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesRAALCX+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bitten-off Tongue?

98 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 Bitten-off Tongue hard to play on drums?

53 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?

145 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Bitten-off Tongue?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 67, 75, 83, 91, 117 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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