TQM · Little Jesus ft. Elsa y Elmar & Ximena Sariñana

153 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 4:23 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-65, 67 and 69, and 29 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
TQM · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 44 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 6-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 7 sections: 73 keep time, 50 are fills, 7 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-48.

PART S2
PART N
PART S4
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesPNS2WS4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is TQM?

105 BPM, in 3/4, 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 TQM hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in TQM?

20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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