Tornado · Good Kid

101 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-41, 66-80 and 82-88, and 1 more place -- 46% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 175 BPM
TORNADO · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 81 and 89.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 6 sections: 92 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-55.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tornado?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Tornado hard to play on drums?

45 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tornado?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 81 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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