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"Tulsa" · 49 Winchester

"Tulsa" · 49 Winchester
EXERCISE 21 OF 33
Run G3 · Part G (bars 86-90)
131 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHGBFS13+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Tulsa" on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
41/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-10, silence through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-45, toms through bars 46-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-87, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-49, 73-84 and 88-89, and 4 more places -- 51.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
"Tulsa" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 7, 71, 96, 97 and 143.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- H, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-14 -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-24 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-86 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 86-101 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is "Tulsa"?

145 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 "Tulsa" hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 "Tulsa"?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 7, 71, 96, 97 and 143.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED