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Tourniquet · Marilyn Manson

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBGLMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tourniquet on drums

181 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-116, toms through bars 117-140, ride through bars 141-148 and hi-hat through bars 149-181.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 13-18 and 37-50, and 12 more places -- 40.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|--x-x-----------|
Tourniquet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 36 and 100.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-37 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 56-104 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 137-152 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tourniquet?

181 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 Tourniquet hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 36 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED