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Tongue Tied · Grouplove

Tongue Tied · Grouplove
EXERCISE 4 OF 22
Fill at bar 14, 28 and 56 (a small one)
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0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCIS1FS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tongue Tied on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, snare through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26, snare through bars 27-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-44, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 17 and 23-26, and 9 more places -- 47.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 14, 18, 28, 46, 56, 77 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C, B, F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 5 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tongue Tied?

113 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?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 14, 18, 28, 46, 56, 77 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED