Drop G# Bitter Inspo · ethandies

73 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 1:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
1:42
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-41, 67 and 71 -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
DROP G# BITTER INSPO · BARS 30-31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 25, 26, 42, 43, 44 and 9 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 42-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 6 sections: 46 keep time, 15 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-14.

PART C
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesICTFDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drop G# Bitter Inspo?

170 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 Drop G# Bitter Inspo hard to play on drums?

57 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 1:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Drop G# Bitter Inspo?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 25, 26, 42, 43, 44 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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