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The Dope Fein · LD-50

The Dope Fein · LD-50
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EXERCISE 3 OF 44
Groove I
80 / 234 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Dope Fein on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
8:31
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-53, hi-hat through bars 54-57, ride through bars 58-77 and silence through bars 78-88, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    60                                               61
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------------------------------|------------------------x-----------x-----------|
RD |------------------------x-------x---x-------x---|x-------x---x-------x---------------------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-----------x---|--------------------x---------------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-------x---x-------x---|x-------x---x-------x---x-----------x-----------|
The Dope Fein -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- R, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-53 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-58 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-105 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part V -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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