Orange tornado · Thunder Monkeys

112 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-10, 20-35 and 72-79, and 1 more place -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
ORANGE TORNADO · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 18, 19, 53, 54, 58 and 5 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 70-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 11 sections: 89 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-38.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART P
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesCEJNP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Orange tornado?

160 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Orange tornado hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 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 Orange tornado?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 18, 19, 53, 54, 58 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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