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Tempest · Rolo Tomassi

Tempest · Rolo Tomassi
EXERCISE 7 OF 59
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
25 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART E
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tempest on drums

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

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
56/100

The time is kept on the snare the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    40
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |x-----------------------------------------------|
BD |------x-----------------x-----------------x-----|
Tempest -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- AE, AU -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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