Tuesday's Gone · Lynyrd Skynyrd

95 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 73 BPM, 7:47 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
7:47
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 15 and 25, and 5 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 73 BPM
TUESDAY'S GONE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 12, 18, 20, 24, 28 and 10 more.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 13 sections: 33 keep time, 16 are fills and 32 are silent.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART M
BREAK 3
7 groovesS13HDMO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tuesday's Gone?

73 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Tuesday's Gone hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 7:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Tuesday's Gone?

16 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 12, 18, 20, 24, 28 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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