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Tank & Turret · Rowanexen

Tank & Turret · Rowanexen
EXERCISE 20 OF 35
7-bar fill at bar 18
33 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART N
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesS5EWNSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tank & Turret on drums

68 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 2:20 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
82/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, snare through bars 19-38, hi-hat through bars 39-40, snare through bars 41-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-56, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11 and 13-15 -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......7.......
CC |x-------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------------o-------------o-------------o-------------|
SD |----------------------------x---------------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Tank & Turret -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part S -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-45 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 21-44 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tank & Turret?

170 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Tank & Turret hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

68 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tank & Turret?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED