Underdog · Brutto

80 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 17-19 and 21-23, and 9 more places -- 54.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
UNDERDOG · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 7 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 9 sections: 54 keep time, 13 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-79.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDJS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Underdog?

130 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 Underdog hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Underdog?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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