The Call Of Dabhaidh · David Baker

82 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 2:34 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 10 and 13-14, and 2 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
THE CALL OF DABHAIDH · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 23, 38, 45 and 82.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 82
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 8 sections: 22 keep time, 5 are fills, 18 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-21.

PART C
PART B
PART J
PART S6
BREAK
OUTRO
8 groovesS8S7BJC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Call Of Dabhaidh?

110 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Call Of Dabhaidh hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Call Of Dabhaidh?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 23, 38, 45 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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