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Sad Man's Tongue · Volbeat

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART B
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFOBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sad Man's Tongue on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-60, snare through bars 61-64 and ride through bars 65-70, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Sad Man's Tongue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-18 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 8 minutes.
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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