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Tombstone · Sodom

EXERCISE 22 OF 49
Join Part H to Chorus (bars 18-20)
66 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJFHTC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tombstone on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-19, ride through bars 20-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-34, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-24, 35-38 and 53-56, and 2 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |------x--x--------x--x--------x--x--------x--x--|
Tombstone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 10, 12, 14, 19, 25 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-20 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-30 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 26-53 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-60 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tombstone?

91 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Tombstone hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Tombstone?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 10, 12, 14, 19, 25 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED