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Bubblegum bitch · Marina And The Diamonds

Bubblegum bitch · Marina And The Diamonds
EXERCISE 4 OF 9
Fill at bar 16, 24, 46 and 2 more (a small one)
96 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bubblegum bitch on drums

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

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
52/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Bubblegum bitch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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