Snakebite · Alice Cooper

154 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 13 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
SNAKEBITE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 17, 22, 23, 31, 39, 47 and 33 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 14 sections: 85 keep time, 39 are fills, 9 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

CHORUS
PART Q
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesBFQS8L+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Snakebite?

138 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 Snakebite hard to play on drums?

62 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Snakebite?

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 17, 22, 23, 31, 39, 47 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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