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Dosed · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 23 OF 36
Join Part S6 to Chorus 3 (bars 89-91)
121 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S6, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dosed on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-32, ride through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-62, ride through bars 63-81 and silence through bars 82-88, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-x-----|
Dosed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-125 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-91 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 89-113 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 111-132 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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