NIGHT IN TUNISIA · Jesus Molina

152 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 3:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 81 and 83, and 3 more places -- 5.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
NIGHT IN TUNISIA · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 53 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 5-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 14 sections: 60 keep time, 60 are fills, 7 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-23.

PART S2
PART K
CHORUS
PART D
PART AS
PART J
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesARUOKJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is NIGHT IN TUNISIA?

170 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is NIGHT IN TUNISIA hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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?

13 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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