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Black Betty · Spiderbait

Black Betty · Spiderbait
EXERCISE 22 OF 42
Groove N -- Part N
74 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART C
PART E
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBCGTE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Betty on drums

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

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-40, toms through bars 41-43, hi-hat through bars 44-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-47 and snare through bars 48-55, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
FT |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Black Betty -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-41 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-56 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 54-84 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 68-87 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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