Tahanan · El Manu

35 bars, 2:00, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
35
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 19-21, and 3 more places -- 51.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
TAHANAN · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 16, 18, 22 and 2 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

35 bars across 3 sections: 21 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-29.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tahanan?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Tahanan hard to play on drums?

61 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

35 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tahanan?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 16, 18, 22 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 35 BARS ANALYSED
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