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Bitten-off Tongue · SHITWORKERS

EXERCISE 26 OF 60
Groove S
107 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bitten-off Tongue on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-17, hi-hat through bars 18-19, ride through bars 20-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-35, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    76
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Bitten-off Tongue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- AA -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R, L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-68 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-44 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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