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DOPAMINE · Kami Kehoe

DOPAMINE · Kami Kehoe
EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove B -- Chorus 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDFKS9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play DOPAMINE on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-16, toms through bars 17-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-21 and snare through bars 22-26, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-12, 34-40 and 42-48, and 7 more places -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|--x---x---x---x-|
DOPAMINE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 41, 49, 53, 55, 57, 85 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B, D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-69 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is DOPAMINE?

132 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 DOPAMINE hard to play on drums?

38 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in DOPAMINE?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 41, 49, 53, 55, 57, 85 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED