4 · Tell Your Dog I Said Hi

157 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-28 and 151-154 -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 184 BPM
4 · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 2, 37, 41, 45, 53, 54 and 25 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 53-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 22 sections: 82 keep time, 31 are fills, 10 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-16.

PART E
PART O
PART Q
PART Y
CHORUS
PART U
PART BC
21 groovesS14QBCIO+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 4?

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

Is 4 hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 4?

18 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 2, 37, 41, 45, 53, 54 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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