Voodoo Doll · 5 Seconds Of Summer

117 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 62-68 and 96-100 -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
VOODOO DOLL · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 24, 25, 33 and 35 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 14 sections: 52 keep time, 41 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART B
PART E
PART J
CHORUS
PART B
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART AF
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNPAFBE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Voodoo Doll?

144 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 Voodoo Doll hard to play on drums?

54 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Voodoo Doll?

17 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 24, 25, 33 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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