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Tangerine Boulevard · IV Of Spades

EXERCISE 19 OF 38
Join Chorus 5 to Part H (bars 100-102)
99 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 5, PART H
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART B
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART H
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCBPS1H+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tangerine Boulevard on drums

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.

37 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
137
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-108, silence through bars 109-114, snare through bars 115-116, ride through bars 117-121 and snare through bars 122-137.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 43-80 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 77-97 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 100-117 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 115-125 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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