Medicine Bottle · Red House Painters

189 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 9:49 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
9:49
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-24, 34-40 and 50-56, and 9 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 77 BPM
MEDICINE BOTTLE · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 188 and 189.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 188-189 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 20 sections: 157 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-119.

CHORUS
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDIMK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Medicine Bottle?

77 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 Medicine Bottle hard to play on drums?

49 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 9:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Medicine Bottle?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 188 and 189.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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