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(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay · Otis Redding

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove B -- Outro
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0 / 7 PASSED · 54 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:46 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-69.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-35 and 37-51, and 2 more places -- 83.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay?

100 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 (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED