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Tongue Tied · Free Throw

EXERCISE 31 OF 53
Groove R -- Part R (a two-bar phrase)
62 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tongue Tied on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-32, ride through bars 33-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-65, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    81               82
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x--x----|----x--x----x-x-|
BD |x--x--x-----x---|--x-----x--x----|
Tongue Tied -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-27 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED