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Bittersweet · Alternative Competition 4

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART S3
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCAS3DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bittersweet on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 1-49, silence through bars 50-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-105.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C, D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 65-105 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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