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Tie My Rope · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 25 OF 75
Part H into Chorus with the record (bars 26-33)
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0 / 75 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKVABHE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tie My Rope on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-69, ride through bars 70-83 and snare through bars 84-89, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 54-56, and 3 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30               31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|--------x---x---|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o-----------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |xxxx--xx-----xx-|--xxxxxxx-------|
Tie My Rope -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-18 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-46 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tie My Rope?

131 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 Tie My Rope hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Tie My Rope?

21 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED