Tennessee Whiskey · Chris Stapleton

61 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 77 BPM, 4:40 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 22-24 and 26-28 -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 77 BPM
TENNESSEE WHISKEY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 13, 29, 37 and 41.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 7 sections: 31 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-12.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesDS7FCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tennessee Whiskey?

77 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 Tennessee Whiskey hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit 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 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Whiskey?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 13, 29, 37 and 41.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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