Black Betty · Spiderbait

104 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-6, 41-42 and 72-83 -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BLACK BETTY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 43, 55, 91, 100, 101 and 2 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 13 sections: 79 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-70.

PART C
PART E
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBCGTE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Betty?

125 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 Black Betty hard to play on drums?

55 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Black Betty?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 43, 55, 91, 100, 101 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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