I Wanna Be Your Dog · The Stooges

94 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockPunk120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 34 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 121 BPM
I WANNA BE YOUR DOG · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 5 sections: 84 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-94.

BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFES3S2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Wanna Be Your Dog?

121 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?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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