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Tourniquet · Cripper

Tourniquet · Cripper
EXERCISE 4 OF 47
Groove F -- Part F
44 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2, PART D
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tourniquet on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, 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
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-17, hi-hat through bars 18-65, snare through bars 66-73, hi-hat through bars 74-76 and toms through bars 77-78, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Tourniquet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- S -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-18 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-30 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-78 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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