Bittersweet · Alternative Competition 4

105 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 135 BPM, 2:20 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32, 34 and 38, and 16 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BITTERSWEET · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 48, 96 and 104.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 6 sections: 67 keep time, 4 are fills, 16 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART A
CHORUS
PART S3
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCAS3DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bittersweet?

135 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Bittersweet hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bittersweet?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 48, 96 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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