The Dope Fein · LD-50

234 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 8:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
8:31
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 58, 60-62 and 64-66, and 14 more places -- 21.7% 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 DOPE FEIN · BARS 60-61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 51, 55, 57, 59, 63 and 12 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

234 bars across 11 sections: 175 keep time, 19 are fills, 8 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 176-232.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART R
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesERVS1S8+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Dope Fein?

110 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Dope Fein hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 8:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Dope Fein?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 51, 55, 57, 59, 63 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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