Tongues · Dark Tranquillity

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 15, and 5 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
TONGUES · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, 18 and 25 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 16 sections: 49 keep time, 31 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-89.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesADADLQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tongues?

80 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 Tongues hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Tongues?

20 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, 18 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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