Tensionado · Soapdish

57 bars, 3:13, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 30-32, and 6 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 71 BPM
TENSIONADO · BAR 18
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 19, 21, 29, 33, 38 and 6 more.

LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 7 sections: 24 keep time, 12 are fills, 4 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-28.

BREAK 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
5 groovesDS2S7S4S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tensionado?

71 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Tensionado hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tensionado?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 19, 21, 29, 33, 38 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 57 BARS ANALYSED
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