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tuffisaurus · Joel

EXERCISE 9 OF 68
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 12-14)
113 / 216 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART M
17 groovesENCHQ+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 5
JOIN · 17
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play tuffisaurus on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-40, hi-hat through bars 41-55, ride through bars 56-60, snare through bars 61-76 and ride through bars 77-92, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
tuffisaurus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- E, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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