Doctor Doctor · Iron Maiden

155 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 41-47 and 49-56, and 8 more places -- 58.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
DOCTOR DOCTOR · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 40, 64, 72, 92, 96 and 5 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 12 sections: 129 keep time, 11 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-56.

PART A
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFAICN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Doctor Doctor?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Doctor Doctor hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Doctor Doctor?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 40, 64, 72, 92, 96 and 5 more.

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