Bittersweet · Big Head Todd And The Monsters

181 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 6:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-32, 34-40 and 63-76, and 4 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BITTERSWEET · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 60, 61, 77 and 15 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 60-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 11 sections: 139 keep time, 21 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-40.

PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART H
OUTRO
7 groovesKHDES1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bittersweet?

117 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Bittersweet?

15 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 60, 61, 77 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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