Dopethrone · Electric Wizard

36 bars, 2:37, at 55 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
55 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
36
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 8-9 and 11, and 3 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 55 BPM
DOPETHRONE · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 16, 20, 23 and 5 more.

LOOP · 55 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

36 bars across 7 sections: 18 keep time, 11 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

COUNT-IN
BREAK
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCJHPS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dopethrone?

55 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Dopethrone hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

36 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 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 Dopethrone?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 16, 20, 23 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 36 BARS ANALYSED
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