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I Wanna Be Your Dog · John McCrea

I Wanna Be Your Dog · John McCrea
EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART S1
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFDS1IFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Wanna Be Your Dog on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-11, hi-hat through bars 12-15, snare through bars 16-30, hi-hat through bars 31-40 and snare through bars 41-50, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-20, 22 and 24, and 17 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
I Wanna Be Your Dog -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 27, 29, 36, 37, 38 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- F, D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-70 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Wanna Be Your Dog?

120 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 I Wanna Be Your Dog hard to play on drums?

50 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 I Wanna Be Your Dog?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 27, 29, 36, 37, 38 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED