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Tarantula Girl · Violent Vira

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove F -- Part F
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0 / 12 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART S2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS5FS2AS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tarantula Girl on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48, silence through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-56, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-48 -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Tarantula Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- F -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 25-96 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tarantula Girl?

120 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 Tarantula Girl hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Tarantula Girl?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED