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Mr. Tinkertrain · Ozzy Osbourne

EXERCISE 24 OF 60
Join Chorus to Part P (bars 49-51)
80 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART P
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART P
PART A
PART W
PART Z
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKBHWS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mr. Tinkertrain on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-25, toms through bars 26-28, hi-hat through bars 29-71, kick and crashes through bars 72-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-95, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 44-48 and 109-115 -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Mr. Tinkertrain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 41, 49 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- K, W -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-129 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-60 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-73 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mr. Tinkertrain?

126 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 Mr. Tinkertrain 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 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 Mr. Tinkertrain?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 41, 49 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED