Hound Dog · Elvis Presley

97 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-11, 14-23 and 26-35, and 3 more places -- 86.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 172 BPM
HOUND DOG · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 96 and 97.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 96-97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 4 sections: 93 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-94.

CHORUS
4 groovesBS4S1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hound Dog?

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

Is Hound Dog hard to play on drums?

56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Hound Dog?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 96 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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