Doctor Worm · They Might Be Giants

119 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-13, 21-27 and 41, and 8 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 161 BPM
DOCTOR WORM · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 36, 52, 56, 67, 68 and 6 more.

LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 10 sections: 57 keep time, 12 are fills, 34 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-27.

CHORUS
PART C
PART K
PART O
PART K
BREAK
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCKTO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Doctor Worm?

161 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 Doctor Worm hard to play on drums?

54 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Worm?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 36, 52, 56, 67, 68 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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