Tendinitis · Jr

179 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-20, and 6 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 173 BPM
TENDINITIS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 18 and 66 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BARS 7-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 17 sections: 76 keep time, 72 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-103.

CHORUS
PART O
PART V
PART AE
PART AW
PART BB
PART BB
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART BY
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesGBBVAEO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tendinitis?

173 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Tendinitis hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 27 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Tendinitis?

17 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 18 and 66 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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