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Tugboat · Galaxie 500

Tugboat · Galaxie 500
EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove B -- Chorus 3
0 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART L
12 groovesBLCES1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tugboat on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-28, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Tugboat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, C -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-21 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-45 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-49 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-69 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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