Dig · Mudvayne

90 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 29-31, and 3 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
DIG · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 27 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 3-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 11 sections: 43 keep time, 33 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-85.

CHORUS
PART K
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFKVOY+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dig?

135 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 Dig hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Dig?

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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