Dr. Feelgood · Mötley Crüe

135 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 16-23, 32-35 and 44-47, and 14 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 111 BPM
DR. FEELGOOD · BARS 16-17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 54, 79, 96, 98, 104, 113 and 1 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 13 sections: 106 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-135.

PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART C
PART P
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECGRPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dr. Feelgood?

111 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 Dr. Feelgood hard to play on drums?

61 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Dr. Feelgood?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 54, 79, 96, 98, 104, 113 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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