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Night In Tunisia Drum · Jesus Molina

EXERCISE 22 OF 24
Join Part I to Break 2 (bars 53-55)
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0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, BREAK 2
PART C
PART D
BREAK
PART S5
PART I
BREAK 2
OUTRO
8 groovesS8S5CDS4+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Night In Tunisia Drum on drums

91 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 2:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-8, ride through bars 9-11, hi-hat through bars 12-20, silence through bars 21-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-32, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 20 and 32, and 3 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o--------------o--------------------------------|
SD |------x-----------------------------------------|
BD |x-----------x--x-----x--------------------------|
HF |------x--------------x--------------------------|
Night In Tunisia Drum -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 10, 16, 29, 30, 47, 51 and 1 more.

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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-31 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part S5 and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Night In Tunisia Drum?

163 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Night In Tunisia Drum hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 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 Night In Tunisia Drum?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 10, 16, 29, 30, 47, 51 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED