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Tongues · Dark Tranquillity

EXERCISE 12 OF 74
Fill at bar 8 and 56
45 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tongues on drums

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.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
82/100

snare through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26, snare through bars 27-28, toms through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36 and snare through bars 37-46, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--------------------x--x--------------------x--|
Tongues -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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