Son Of A Bitch · Accept

126 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-56, 58-60 and 70-72, and 8 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SON OF A BITCH · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 18, 22, 27, 28, 35 and 9 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 8 sections: 84 keep time, 21 are fills, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-125.

PART B
PART G
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesUGBXO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Son Of A Bitch?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Son Of A Bitch hard to play on drums?

64 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Son Of A Bitch?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 18, 22, 27, 28, 35 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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