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Drop G# Bitter Inspo · ethandies

EXERCISE 19 OF 41
4-bar fill at bar 42
44 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesICTFDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drop G# Bitter Inspo on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
1:42
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-47, toms through bars 48-49, snare through bars 50-71 and toms through bars 72-73.

The beat

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.

    30               31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---xxxxxxxxxx|
Drop G# Bitter Inspo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- I, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-19 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-33 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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