Double Dealer · Faithful Breath

107 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 26-28, and 6 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
DOUBLE DEALER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 24, 33, 37, 41, 53 and 8 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 12 sections: 76 keep time and 14 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGADMS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Double Dealer?

115 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 Double Dealer hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 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 Double Dealer?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 24, 33, 37, 41, 53 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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