JOHN DOE · Lie and a Chameleon

123 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-42 and 69-71, and 5 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
JOHN DOE · BAR 73
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 18, 26, 30 and 22 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 15 sections: 73 keep time, 28 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
PART E
PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART Q
PART U
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AC
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
11 groovesNQAACI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is JOHN DOE?

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

Is JOHN DOE hard to play on drums?

63 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in JOHN DOE?

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 18, 26, 30 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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