Bubblegum bitch · Marina And The Diamonds

100 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:34 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopElectronic150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 5 more places -- 92% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BUBBLEGUM BITCH · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 24, 46, 54, 72 and 100.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars: 94 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-99.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bubblegum bitch?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bubblegum bitch hard to play on drums?

52 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Bubblegum bitch?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 24, 46, 54, 72 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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