Spit · Kittie

112 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-17, 19-26 and 47-53, and 10 more places -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 195 BPM
SPIT · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 9, 10, 18 and 54.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 11 sections: 65 keep time, 5 are fills, 16 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-111.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART A
BREAK 4
OUTRO
9 groovesDHJS1S10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spit?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Spit hard to play on drums?

60 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Spit?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 9, 10, 18 and 54.

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