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Bitter Taste · Billy Idol

EXERCISE 14 OF 27
Join Part F to Chorus 2 (bars 64-66)
104 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 4
5 groovesAFHEJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bitter Taste on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-55, toms through bars 56-65, hi-hat through bars 66-80, toms through bars 81-85, hi-hat through bars 86-110 and snare through bars 111-115, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 64-116 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 79-112 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED