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TDFB · Ends In Tragedy, Dance

TDFB · Ends In Tragedy, Dance
EXERCISE 15 OF 45
Join Chorus to Part K (bars 23-25)
67 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART K
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART T
PART S10
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIQFKC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play TDFB on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
57/100

ride through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-30 and snare through bars 31-62, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-24 and 29-32, and 2 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x-------x-------x---|
TDFB -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 47, 64, 70, 74 and 102.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- I, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-40 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is TDFB?

150 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 TDFB hard to play on drums?

57 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 TDFB?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 47, 64, 70, 74 and 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED