Tourniquet · Cripper

119 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-36, 47-49 and 51-56, and 4 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TOURNIQUET · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 7, 8, 17, 25, 26, 37 and 7 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 10 sections: 83 keep time, 13 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-117.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIDFSP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tourniquet?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Tourniquet hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Tourniquet?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 7, 8, 17, 25, 26, 37 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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