Dope Fiend · Acid Bath

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 6:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
6:13
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-5, 7-8 and 102-109, and 2 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 83 BPM
DOPE FIEND · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 6, 25, 57, 61, 83 and 5 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 12 sections: 93 keep time, 11 are fills, 7 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-42.

PART C
CHORUS
PART K
PART V
PART R
PART AG
PART C
11 groovesHCVKR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dope Fiend?

83 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 Dope Fiend hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 6:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Dope Fiend?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 6, 25, 57, 61, 83 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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