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Testicular Torsion · Diavolo

EXERCISE 21 OF 86
Fill at bar 28 (a small one)
66 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART D
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
PART O
PART Q
PART W
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCDWANQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Testicular Torsion on drums

150 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54, snare through bars 55-70, ride through bars 71-72 and snare through bars 73-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 137 and 139-141, and 2 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    137
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Testicular Torsion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-25 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Testicular Torsion?

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

Is Testicular Torsion hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Testicular Torsion?

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED