Tennesse Whiskey · David Allen Cole

61 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 76 BPM, 4:44 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 7-8 and 11-12, and 6 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 76 BPM
TENNESSE WHISKEY · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 13, 29 and 37.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 6 sections: 32 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-28.

INTRO
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesDS6BS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tennesse Whiskey?

76 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Tennesse Whiskey hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Tennesse Whiskey?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 13, 29 and 37.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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