Colorado Bulldog · Mr. Big 90s

129 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 22-23, and 9 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
COLORADO BULLDOG · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 21 and 19 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 1-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 14 sections: 82 keep time, 25 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-117.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesDFHNT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Colorado Bulldog?

130 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 Colorado Bulldog hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Colorado Bulldog?

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 21 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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