Dosed · Red Hot Chili Peppers

133 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 5:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-21 and 23-31, and 2 more places -- 36.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
DOSED · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 40, 70, 74, 80, 89, 90 and 6 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 89-90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 11 sections: 97 keep time, 12 are fills, 2 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-31.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART S6
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
6 groovesBFHS6O+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dosed?

105 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 Dosed hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Dosed?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 40, 70, 74, 80, 89, 90 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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