Pitch The Baby · Cocteau Twins

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-17, 19-37 and 40-45, and 3 more places -- 88.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
PITCH THE BABY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 18, 38, 46, 62 and 70.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 70
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 2 sections: 63 keep time, 5 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-37.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pitch The Baby?

90 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 Pitch The Baby hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 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 Pitch The Baby?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 18, 38, 46, 62 and 70.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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