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Tallulah · Sonata Arctica

EXERCISE 6 OF 9
Join Break to Outro (bars 53-55)
118 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK, OUTRO
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tallulah on drums

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.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-117, kick and crashes through bars 118-121, snare through bars 122-125, kick and crashes through bars 126-127 and snare through bars 128-133.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Tallulah -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
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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