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Tortured Whole · Sanguisugabogg

EXERCISE 6 OF 93
Groove E -- Part E
38 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS
PART E
PART S
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART BF
PART BN
PART BQ
CHORUS 3
PART BL
OUTRO
13 groovesABSBNBQBF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tortured Whole on drums

170 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 6:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-13, snare through bars 14-15, hi-hat through bars 16-26, snare through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-33 and toms through bars 34-35, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36, 43 and 47, and 4 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
Tortured Whole -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 53 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 -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BN, Q -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-9 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Break 3 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tortured Whole?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Tortured Whole hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 6:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Tortured Whole?

22 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED