The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is A Train · Unwound

288 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 11:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
288
LENGTH
11:31
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 169-217, 225-238 and 253-259, and 1 more place -- 33.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL IS A TRAIN · BAR 169
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 52, 53, 60, 61, 68 and 7 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 88-91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

288 bars across 21 sections: 218 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 170-217.

PART D
PART D
BREAK
CHORUS
13 groovesVDS6UP+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is A Train?

100 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 The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is A Train hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

288 bars, about 11:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is A Train?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 52, 53, 60, 61, 68 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 288 BARS ANALYSED
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