Tugboat · Galaxie 500

109 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 17-20 and 37-39, and 2 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
TUGBOAT · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 18 sections: 82 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-69.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART L
12 groovesBLCES1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tugboat?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Tugboat hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tugboat?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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