The Bitch Song · Bowling For Soup

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 29-31, and 3 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
THE BITCH SONG · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12 and 17 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 10 sections: 24 keep time, 23 are fills, 8 are stops and 1 is silent.

CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHPULN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Bitch Song?

90 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 The Bitch Song hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 The Bitch Song?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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