ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Bitch Song on drums

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.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 90 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 63
LENGTH: 2:48
DIFFICULTY: 82/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-44, snare through bars 45-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-59, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    13                               14
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---------|
SD |----x-x-----x-------x-x-----x---|----x-x-----x-------x-----xxxxxx|
BD |x---------x-----x---------x-----|x---------x-----x-------x-------|

The Bitch Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 9-21 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Bars 19-26 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Bars 21-29 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part P and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Bars 33-52 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
and 1 more sittings after that.

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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