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Dirty Laundry · Don Henley

EXERCISE 34 OF 36
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 121-123)
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dirty Laundry on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56, ride through bars 57-72, hi-hat through bars 73-106, ride through bars 107-122 and hi-hat through bars 123-136.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 16-81 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-91 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-65 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-73 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 87-123 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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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