Hair of the dog. · Nazareth

134 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 16-20 and 41, and 11 more places -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
HAIR OF THE DOG. · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 68, 76, 80, 84 and 96.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 13 sections: 111 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-134.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART D
PART D
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEDAOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hair of the dog.?

126 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 Hair of the dog. hard to play on drums?

46 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Hair of the dog.?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 68, 76, 80, 84 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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