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Dirty White Boy · Foreigner

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 40 PASSED · 55 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFAPCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dirty White Boy on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-101, snare through bars 102-106 and hi-hat through bars 107-111.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 26 and 30-31, and 11 more places -- 49.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 10, 24, 28, 32, 46 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- F, A -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-30 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dirty White Boy?

138 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 White Boy hard to play on drums?

52 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Dirty White Boy?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 10, 24, 28, 32, 46 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED