Tribute · Tenacious D

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 42, and 7 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 86 BPM
TRIBUTE · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 11, 23, 25, 29, 33 and 6 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 9 sections: 42 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-20.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART G
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART AB
8 groovesNGCBAB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tribute?

86 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 Tribute hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Tribute?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 11, 23, 25, 29, 33 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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