Tongue Tied · Free Throw

97 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 2:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 81-83, 85-87 and 89-94 -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
TONGUE TIED · BARS 81-82
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 40, 44, 46 and 10 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 13 sections: 58 keep time, 16 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-12.

CHORUS
PART B
PART C
PART I
PART L
PART B
PART R
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAZBRL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tongue Tied?

152 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?

63 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 40, 44, 46 and 10 more.

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