The First Dose · Jimboberee

154 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 62-69, and 7 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 157 BPM
THE FIRST DOSE · BAR 62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 15, 19, 20, 24, 36, 40 and 17 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 15 sections: 110 keep time, 23 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-120.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
PART Q
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART AD
CHORUS 4
PART K
OUTRO
8 groovesHKDADB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The First Dose?

157 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The First Dose hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 First Dose?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 15, 19, 20, 24, 36, 40 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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