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Tribute · Tenacious D

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove N -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tribute on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-38, silence through bars 39-41, ride through bars 42-62, snare through bars 63-67 and silence through bars 68-70.

The beat

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.

    34
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-----------------------|
RD |----x-------x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-----x-----------|
Tribute -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- N -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-28 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-34 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AB -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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