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The Bitter End · Sum 41

EXERCISE 26 OF 56
Groove S -- Part S
103 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S, OUTRO
PART E
PART H
PART I
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART W
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMSWEH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Bitter End on drums

148 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-37, snare through bars 38-39, hi-hat through bars 40-44 and snare through bars 45-48, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-31, 33-35 and 53-54, and 11 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---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

13 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 3, 7, 12, 13, 25, 28 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- M, W -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-14 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part S -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 37-76 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Bitter End?

204 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?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

148 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Bitter End?

13 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 3, 7, 12, 13, 25, 28 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED