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Dogs · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 24 OF 108
Run L1 · Part L (bars 61-77)
134 / 323 BARS COVERED
0 / 108 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 20
LINK · 11
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dogs on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
323
LENGTH
11:42
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-10, silence through bars 11-13, ride through bars 14-96, silence through bars 97-107 and ride through bars 108-127, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------------------|
Dogs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 87 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 -- D, O -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part S3 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-247 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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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