The Lasting Dose · Crowbar

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 24 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
THE LASTING DOSE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 24, 28, 39 and 21 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 9 sections: 54 keep time, 27 are fills and 22 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-14.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDANYFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Lasting Dose?

108 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 Lasting Dose hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Lasting Dose?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 24, 28, 39 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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