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Tormento · Mon Laferte

EXERCISE 12 OF 43
Join Part D to Chorus 2 (bars 27-29)
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0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART S8
PART U
OUTRO
7 groovesBDQS8U+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tormento on drums

108 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 73 BPM, 4:27 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
39/100

ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-28, ride through bars 29-31, toms through bars 32-33, ride through bars 34-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-67, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26-28, and 3 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---------x-|
Tormento -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 32, 33, 35 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D, B -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 49-71 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 67-82 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part U and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tormento?

73 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Tormento hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Tormento?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 32, 33, 35 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED