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Tavern · Netherwalker

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove E -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART T
BREAK 2
PART X
PART AC
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEAIHBAC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tavern on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-52, ride through bars 53-58, snare through bars 59-69, silence through bars 70-77 and snare through bars 78-98, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 29, and 3 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Tavern -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 32, 38, 48, 55, 56 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-60 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-70 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part X and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tavern?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Tavern hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Tavern?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 32, 38, 48, 55, 56 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED