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Dirty Harry · Gorillaz

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove G -- Chorus
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0 / 21 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dirty Harry on drums

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

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
61/100

ride through bars 1-52, hi-hat through bars 53-75, silence through bars 76-78 and ride through bars 79-88.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x-xx----x|
Dirty Harry -- 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 20 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 -- G, L -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-50 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-87 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED