Dirty Harry · Gorillaz

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-26, 29-35 and 37-46, and 1 more place -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
DIRTY HARRY · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 13 sections: 79 keep time and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-46.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART L
CHORUS 3
9 groovesGLCS10H+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dirty Harry?

96 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 Dirty Harry hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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