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NIGHT IN TUNISIA · Jesus Molina

EXERCISE 12 OF 69
Groove N
35 / 152 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play NIGHT IN TUNISIA on drums

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.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-7, ride through bars 8-11, hi-hat through bars 12-21, ride through bars 22-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-30, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
NIGHT IN TUNISIA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-108 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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