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Bittersweet · Fuel

EXERCISE 23 OF 23
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIJDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bittersweet on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-9, toms through bars 10-11, ride through bars 12-15, hi-hat through bars 16-25 and ride through bars 26-31, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-23, 38-45 and 64-66 -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Bittersweet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 10, 11, 33, 55, 68, 76 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- I, D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-59 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-86 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Bittersweet?

100 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 Bittersweet hard to play on drums?

50 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 10, 11, 33, 55, 68, 76 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED