Tremolo + Delay · Toe

129 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieJazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7-8 and 11-12, and 7 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
TREMOLO + DELAY · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 33, 41, 43, 45, 56, 60 and 6 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 10 sections: 97 keep time, 14 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

CHORUS
PART K
PART V
PART AG
PART M
OUTRO
9 groovesCKAGVM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tremolo + Delay?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Tremolo + Delay hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 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, 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 Tremolo + Delay?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 33, 41, 43, 45, 56, 60 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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