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Call Me A Dog · Temple Of The Dog

EXERCISE 33 OF 47
Groove W -- Outro
97 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Call Me A Dog on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 1-84, toms through bars 85-86, ride through bars 87-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-119.

The beat

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.

    2
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x---x---o---x---x---x---|
SD |------------r-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
Call Me A Dog -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- B, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-73 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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