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Tornado · Good Kid

EXERCISE 17 OF 20
Fill at bar 89 (a small one)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tornado on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-57, hi-hat through bars 58-65 and snare through bars 66-101.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Tornado -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- G, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-82 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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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