Babydoll · Dominic Fike

35 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 1:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
35
LENGTH
1:40
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12 and 27-34 -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BABYDOLL · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

35 bars across 8 sections: 28 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-35.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART E
OUTRO
6 groovesBES1S3S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Babydoll?

84 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 Babydoll hard to play on drums?

58 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

35 bars, about 1:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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