Any Major Dude Will Tell You - fix · Steely Dan

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 12, and 7 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
ANY MAJOR DUDE WILL TELL YOU - FIX · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 19, 20, 28, 36, 37 and 6 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 36-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 6 sections: 40 keep time, 12 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-10.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEKBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Any Major Dude Will Tell You - fix?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Any Major Dude Will Tell You - fix hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Any Major Dude Will Tell You - fix?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 19, 20, 28, 36, 37 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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