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Bittersweet (Full) · Hoodoo Gurus

Bittersweet (Full) · Hoodoo Gurus
EXERCISE 3 OF 30
Groove I -- Outro
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0 / 30 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bittersweet (Full) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-25, hi-hat through bars 26-30, snare through bars 31-57, hi-hat through bars 58-80 and snare through bars 81-100, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Bittersweet (Full) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 22-58 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 75-103 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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