Tequila Sunrise Simple · Eagles

77 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-31 and 33-76 -- 95.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
TEQUILA SUNRISE SIMPLE · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 2 sections: 73 keep time, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-76.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tequila Sunrise Simple?

112 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Tequila Sunrise Simple hard to play on drums?

44 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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