Tangerine Boulevard · IV Of Spades

137 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-26, 32-46 and 62-66, and 4 more places -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TANGERINE BOULEVARD · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 52, 115, 116, 120, 122, 124 and 3 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 115-116 · LANDS ON BAR 117 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 16 sections: 91 keep time, 9 are fills, 5 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-46.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART H
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCBPS1H+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tangerine Boulevard?

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 Tangerine Boulevard hard to play on drums?

37 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tangerine Boulevard?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 52, 115, 116, 120, 122, 124 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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