tennessee orange · Megan Moroney

187 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 157 BPM, 3:35 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 49 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 157 BPM
TENNESSEE ORANGE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 37, 77, 79, 117, 149, 150 and 1 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
LOOP · 157 BPM
BARS 149-150 · LANDS ON BAR 151 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 25 sections: 117 keep time, 7 are fills, 24 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-57.

BREAK
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART K
PART K
13 groovesCBKDS3+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is tennessee orange?

157 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is tennessee orange hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 tennessee orange?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 37, 77, 79, 117, 149, 150 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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