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Tourniquet · Evanescence

EXERCISE 9 OF 30
Join Part D to Chorus 2 (bars 33-35)
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0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDS1PS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tourniquet on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, silence through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-66, ride through bars 67-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-90, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 35-41 and 59-65, and 3 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx----xx---x-x--|
Tourniquet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 34, 42, 58, 66, 67, 68 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 11-35 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tourniquet?

102 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?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 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 Tourniquet?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 34, 42, 58, 66, 67, 68 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED