Eatin' Dust · Fu Manchu

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 8 and 10, and 5 more places -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
EATIN' DUST · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 19, 39, 43, 47, 51 and 10 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 9 sections: 39 keep time, 16 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-10.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART N
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBGNOL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eatin' Dust?

92 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 Eatin' Dust hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Eatin' Dust?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 19, 39, 43, 47, 51 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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