tuffisaurus · Joel

215 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-38 and 77-90 -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TUFFISAURUS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 49, 54, 55, 60, 61, 101 and 16 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 28 sections: 158 keep time, 22 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-39.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART M
17 groovesENCHQ+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is tuffisaurus?

140 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 tuffisaurus hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 21 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 tuffisaurus?

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 49, 54, 55, 60, 61, 101 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED
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