← SONGS

Teach me how to dougie · Cali Swag District

Teach me how to dougie · Cali Swag District
EXERCISE 17 OF 19
Groove K
79 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Teach me how to dougie on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
50/100

The time is kept on the toms the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24, 31-36 and 43-51, and 3 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |x-----x---x--x--|
BD |x-----x---x--x--|
HF |-xxx-x-xxx-x--xx|
Teach me how to dougie -- 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 18 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 -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-73 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Teach me how to dougie?

84 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 Teach me how to dougie 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED