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Doctor Doctor · UFO

EXERCISE 12 OF 22
Groove K -- Part K
109 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGKADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Doctor Doctor on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
80/100

ride through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-76, ride through bars 77-84, hi-hat through bars 85-108 and ride through bars 109-116, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-43, 47-48 and 51-75, and 2 more places -- 67.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    22
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |X---x-X---x-X---x-X---x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Doctor Doctor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 80, 84 and 112.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-24 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Doctor Doctor?

107 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?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 80, 84 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED