Sad Man's Tongue · Volbeat

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 31 and 33-39, and 4 more places -- 41.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
SAD MAN'S TONGUE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 29, 40, 41 and 11 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 6 sections: 49 keep time, 17 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-39.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFOBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sad Man's Tongue?

108 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 Sad Man's Tongue hard to play on drums?

62 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Sad Man's Tongue?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 29, 40, 41 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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