Tempest · Rolo Tomassi

109 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-41, 60 and 91, and 1 more place -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
TEMPEST · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 19, 26, 34 and 5 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 10 sections: 60 keep time, 11 are fills and 27 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-33.

PART B
PART E
PART L
CHORUS
PART AJ
PART AF
PART AI
PART AU
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesQAJAIBAE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tempest?

110 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 Tempest hard to play on drums?

56 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?

109 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Tempest?

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 19, 26, 34 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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