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The Bitter End · Placebo

EXERCISE 10 OF 29
Run C2 · Part C (bars 17-20)
114 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesECMS17A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Bitter End on drums

145 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 3-89, silence through bars 90-91, toms through bars 92-93, silence through bars 94-95, hi-hat through bars 96-135 and snare through bars 136-145.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 21-23 and 29-31, and 18 more places -- 44.6% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
The Bitter End -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 88, 96, 108 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-108 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 56-121 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Bitter End?

186 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 The Bitter End hard to play on drums?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Bitter End?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 88, 96, 108 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED