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Take A Bite · Beabadoobee

EXERCISE 3 OF 26
Groove C
70 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBEFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take A Bite on drums

100 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-26, ride through bars 27-45, hi-hat through bars 46-63, ride through bars 64-98 and toms through bars 99-100.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 35-41 and 43, and 6 more places -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x---x-----------|
Take A Bite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 26, 63, 82, 83, 99 and 100.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 23-86 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-91 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Take A Bite?

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

Is Take A Bite hard to play on drums?

48 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Take A Bite?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 26, 63, 82, 83, 99 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED