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Torquemada · Avalanch

EXERCISE 1 OF 95
Groove I -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AB
CHORUS 4
PART AB
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
BREAK 2
OUTRO
14 groovesILABS22D+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 4
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Torquemada on drums

254 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 6:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
254
LENGTH
6:18
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-20, toms through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-31 and ride through bars 32-46, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 47-51 and 53, and 17 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Torquemada -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 7, 13, 17, 21, 22, 31 and 66 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, AB -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-140 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-37 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-47 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Torquemada?

160 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 Torquemada hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

254 bars, about 6:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 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 Torquemada?

24 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 7, 13, 17, 21, 22, 31 and 66 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 254 BARS ANALYSED