Tainted Love · Imelda May

119 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7-23 and 25-32, and 10 more places -- 71.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 176 BPM
TAINTED LOVE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 78, 90, 99 and 100.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 99-100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 3 sections: 98 keep time, 4 are fills, 13 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-77.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tainted Love?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Tainted Love hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Tainted Love?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 78, 90, 99 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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