Call Me A Dog · Temple Of The Dog

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 10-11, and 7 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 99 BPM
CALL ME A DOG · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 42, 58, 62 and 12 more.

LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 7 sections: 90 keep time, 18 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBGWRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Call Me A Dog?

99 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Call Me A Dog hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Call Me A Dog?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 42, 58, 62 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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