Bitter Taste · Billy Idol

120 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Punk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-35, 37-53 and 66-70, and 3 more places -- 70.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BITTER TASTE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 62, 86 and 102.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 10 sections: 106 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-35.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 4
5 groovesAFHEJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bitter Taste?

115 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 Bitter Taste hard to play on drums?

46 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bitter Taste?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 62, 86 and 102.

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