Tire Kicking · Tourniquet

14 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 0:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
14
LENGTH
0:20
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 1 more place -- 78.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 165 BPM
TIRE KICKING · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 8 and 12.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

14 bars: 11 keep time and 3 are fills.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tire Kicking?

165 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 Tire Kicking hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

14 bars, about 0:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Tire Kicking?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 8 and 12.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 14 BARS ANALYSED
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