Join Us For A Bite · JT Music

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 21-23 and 25-31, and 4 more places -- 51.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 86 BPM
JOIN US FOR A BITE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 24.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 11 sections: 76 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-80.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCAIHE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Join Us For A Bite?

86 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 Join Us For A Bite hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Join Us For A Bite?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 24.

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