Tongue Tied · Faber Drive

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 12-14 and 16-18, and 6 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 83 BPM
TONGUE TIED · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 11, 31, 39, 46, 47 and 48.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 83 BPM
BARS 46-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 6 sections: 44 keep time, 6 are fills, 3 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-65.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEDS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tongue Tied?

83 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 Tongue Tied hard to play on drums?

46 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tongue Tied?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 11, 31, 39, 46, 47 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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