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Tow Rope Around The Throat · 200 Stab Wounds

EXERCISE 14 OF 63
Join Part H to Chorus 2 (bars 24-26)
53 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART S
PART G
PART AH
BREAK 2
OUTRO
14 groovesDMAPGS+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tow Rope Around The Throat on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
74/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, ride through bars 21-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-64, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 27-29, and 4 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x--x--------------------x-----|
Tow Rope Around The Throat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 35, 43, 72, 79, 80 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-30 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tow Rope Around The Throat?

139 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 Tow Rope Around The Throat hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 19 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 Tow Rope Around The Throat?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 35, 43, 72, 79, 80 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED