Doll Parts · Hole

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:26 of playing, on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 49-56 and 70-71, and 1 more place -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
DOLL PARTS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 74, 75 and 84.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 74-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 26 sections: 53 keep time, 3 are fills and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-17.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S16
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesCDGS16S1+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Doll Parts?

100 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 Doll Parts hard to play on drums?

29 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Doll Parts?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 74, 75 and 84.

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