Tandem · Vanessa Paradis

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 13 more places -- 75% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 86 BPM
TANDEM · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 28, 32, 52 and 2 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars: 64 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-51.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tandem?

86 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 Tandem hard to play on drums?

42 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 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 Tandem?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 28, 32, 52 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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