ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tribal Convictions on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 131 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 162
LENGTH: 5:05
DIFFICULTY: 76/100

toms through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-20, toms through bars 21-26, ride through bars 27-29, toms through bars 30-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-41, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-41, 46-49 and 63-66, and 1 more place -- 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.

    38                               39
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------x-----------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------xx--------------|
T2 |--------------------------------|------------------------x---x---|
FT |--------------------------------|------------------------x---x---|
BD |x-------x---x-----------x---x---|x-x-x---x---x-------x-----------|

Tribal Convictions -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 14, 21, 30, 36, 37, 39 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 14-22 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
Bars 22-32 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus 3 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Bars 34-50 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 54-70 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
and 12 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Tribal Convictions?

131 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 Tribal Convictions hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Tribal Convictions?

16 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 14, 21, 30, 36, 37, 39 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED