Bittersweet (Full) · Hoodoo Gurus

113 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-25, 31-40 and 42-55 -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BITTERSWEET (FULL) · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 57, 59, 67 and 109.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 8 sections: 83 keep time, 4 are fills and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-55.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDIS1K+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bittersweet (Full)?

120 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 (Full) hard to play on drums?

41 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Bittersweet (Full)?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 57, 59, 67 and 109.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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