Wooden Jesus - TotD · Temple of the Dog

118 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 4:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-20 and 38-44 -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
WOODEN JESUS - TOTD · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 27 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 10 sections: 73 keep time, 33 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

CHORUS
PART F
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART Q
PART S
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBSAKFQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wooden Jesus - TotD?

80 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Wooden Jesus - TotD hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Wooden Jesus - TotD?

17 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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