Tallulah · Sonata Arctica

133 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 17 more places -- 78.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TALLULAH · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 53, 61, 69 and 5 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 4 sections: 55 keep time, 11 are fills, 61 are stops and 5 are silent.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tallulah?

140 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 Tallulah hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Tallulah?

1 fill to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 53, 61, 69 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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