Doberman · Deafheaven

268 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 6:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
268
LENGTH
6:41
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-64, 134-138 and 146-148, and 3 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
DOBERMAN · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 31, 32, 33 and 49 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 31-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

268 bars across 16 sections: 175 keep time, 55 are fills, 24 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-64.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART AA
PART AN
OUTRO
12 groovesGIAABAN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Doberman?

160 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 Doberman hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

268 bars, about 6:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Doberman?

24 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 31, 32, 33 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 268 BARS ANALYSED
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