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Hound Dog · Elvis Presley

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
4 groovesBS4S1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hound Dog on drums

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

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 2-11, snare through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-23, snare through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-35 and snare through bars 36-37, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x--------------|
Hound Dog -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 2-97 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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