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tiptoeing · Senses
EXERCISE 3 OF 20
Groove C
42 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART G
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBS1GS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play tiptoeing on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 2:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-49, silence through bars 50-52, toms through bars 53-57, silence through bars 58-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-19 and 21-27, and 7 more places -- 49.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
tiptoeing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 64.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-57 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is tiptoeing?

116 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 tiptoeing hard to play on drums?

39 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in tiptoeing?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED