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Dashboard · Modest Mouse

EXERCISE 5 OF 15
Run C1 · Chorus (bars 14-49)
135 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART D
6 groovesCBDS1S10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dashboard on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
31/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-12, hi-hat through bars 13-37, toms through bars 38-39, hi-hat through bars 40-41, toms through bars 42-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-45, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-37, 40-41 and 44-45, and 10 more places -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Dashboard -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 14-114 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dashboard?

145 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 Dashboard hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED