Drunken Dwarves (correct · Wind Rose

176 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 41-47, and 10 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DRUNKEN DWARVES (CORRECT · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 38 and 29 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 13 sections: 108 keep time, 35 are fills, 12 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
7 groovesDPAJS13+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drunken Dwarves (correct?

120 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 Drunken Dwarves (correct hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Drunken Dwarves (correct?

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 38 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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