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Tornado Of Souls · marty friedman

EXERCISE 8 OF 89
Groove B
132 / 263 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART F
PART A
PART G
PART F
PART C
PART F
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART AD
PART AL
13 groovesDADCFM+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 17
LINK · 17
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tornado Of Souls on drums

263 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 5:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
263
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40 and snare through bars 41-48, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 43 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    152
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|
Tornado Of Souls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 40, 42, 44 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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, C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 10-43 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part M -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 75-167 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tornado Of Souls?

192 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 Of Souls hard to play on drums?

54 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

263 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 Tornado Of Souls?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 40, 42, 44 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 263 BARS ANALYSED