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Dogs Eating Dogs · blink-182

EXERCISE 3 OF 41
Groove I -- Part I
60 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 5
PART O
PART I
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCKIHOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dogs Eating Dogs on drums

159 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-10 and hi-hat through bars 11-12, and 28 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7-8 and 11-12, and 10 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Dogs Eating Dogs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 13, 14, 39, 40 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- C, K -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-36 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-71 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus 5 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dogs Eating Dogs?

187 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 Dogs Eating Dogs hard to play on drums?

59 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Dogs Eating Dogs?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 13, 14, 39, 40 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED