ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play TamasaT bass on drums

258 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 120 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 258
LENGTH: 8:30
DIFFICULTY: 66/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, snare through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-42, snare through bars 43-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-53, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 55-57, 59-61 and 63-65, and 4 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    55                                       56
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------x-------|----------------x---------------x-------|
T2 |----------------------------------------|----------------------------------x-x---|
FT |----------------------------------------|--------------------------------------x-|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x---x-x-x-|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x---------|

TamasaT bass -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 87 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- BT -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part AH -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part AH and Part AN -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part AH and Part AN -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 20 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is TamasaT bass?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 TamasaT bass hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

258 bars, about 8:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 TamasaT bass?

16 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 258 BARS ANALYSED