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The Guilty Dog · Kublai Khan Tx

EXERCISE 11 OF 46
Chorus into Part G with the record (bars 5-12)
29 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAGUACQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Guilty Dog on drums

64 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 1:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
1:51
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, toms through bars 18-20, snare through bars 21-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-36, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 5 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---------x-x-|
The Guilty Dog -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- G, A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-25 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 9-32 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-50 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-60 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Guilty Dog?

137 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 The Guilty Dog hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 1:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 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 Guilty Dog?

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED