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Tendinitis · Jr

EXERCISE 16 OF 91
Groove K -- Part K
51 / 179 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART K
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
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tendinitis on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, snare through bars 11-20, ride through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30 and snare through bars 31-34, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    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-|
Tendinitis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- G -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BB -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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