Dog · Charlotte Lawrence

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 17-23 and 34-40, and 1 more place -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
DOG · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 53, 77 and 85.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 11 sections: 59 keep time, 3 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-69.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART M
BREAK
OUTRO
7 groovesBMLCE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dog?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Dog hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Dog?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 53, 77 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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