Dude (I Totally Miss You) · Tenacious D

36 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 0:50 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
36
LENGTH
0:50
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 17, 20, 21, 24, 25 and 2 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

36 bars across 2 sections: 8 are fills, 24 are stops and 4 are silent.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dude (I Totally Miss You)?

130 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Dude (I Totally Miss You) hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

How long is the drum part?

36 bars, about 0:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Dude (I Totally Miss You)?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 17, 20, 21, 24, 25 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 36 BARS ANALYSED
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