Dirty Laundry · Don Henley

136 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-23 and 25-32, and 8 more places -- 61% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
DIRTY LAUNDRY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 24, 38, 39, 40, 48 and 12 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 9 sections: 112 keep time and 18 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAICFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dirty Laundry?

100 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 Laundry hard to play on drums?

53 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Dirty Laundry?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 24, 38, 39, 40, 48 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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