Dirty Work · Sunami

74 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 1:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
1:44
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 46-47 and 49-52, and 4 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
DIRTY WORK · BAR 59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 15, 29, 37, 41, 45 and 53.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 10 sections: 41 keep time, 6 are fills and 17 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-14.

PART A
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
PART J
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHGCJB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dirty Work?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dirty Work hard to play on drums?

60 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 1:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Work?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 15, 29, 37, 41, 45 and 53.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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