Funny Guy · Dingus

152 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-10 and 66-68, and 5 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
FUNNY GUY · BARS 66-67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 11 and 42 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 11-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 14 sections: 80 keep time, 48 are fills, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-74.

CHORUS
PART L
PART Q
PART U
PART AA
PART AD
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART U
PART AA
PART AD
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEQUAAAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Funny Guy?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Funny Guy hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Funny Guy?

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 11 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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