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Doin' Time · Sublime

EXERCISE 3 OF 8
Groove D -- Outro
77 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE
3 groovesEDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Doin' Time on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:06 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-3 and hi-hat through bars 4-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12-84 -- 92.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxo|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x--x-------x-xx-|
Doin' Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Doin' Time?

82 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 Doin' Time hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED