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Your Dog · Soccer Mommy
EXERCISE 4 OF 20
Join Chorus to Part E (bars 35-37)
60 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCEHDS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Your Dog on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-39, snare through bars 40-41, toms through bars 42-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-24, 26 and 29-30, and 8 more places -- 54.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Your Dog -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 79.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 33-57 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Your Dog?

115 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 Your Dog hard to play on drums?

45 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Your Dog?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED