Dogs · Pink Floyd

323 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 11:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockElectronic90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
323
LENGTH
11:42
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22, and 8 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
DOGS · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 57, 69, 71, 73, 79, 81 and 35 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

323 bars across 28 sections: 201 keep time, 41 are fills, 10 are stops and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-52.

CHORUS
PART L
PART O
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART O
20 groovesDOS21HAO+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dogs?

105 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 Dogs hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

323 bars, about 11:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 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 Dogs?

20 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 57, 69, 71, 73, 79, 81 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 323 BARS ANALYSED
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