Tunnel Of Love · Dire Straits

293 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 9:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
293
LENGTH
9:07
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-31, 33-39 and 41-47, and 23 more places -- 35.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
TUNNEL OF LOVE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 18, 20, 32, 40, 48, 55 and 63 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

293 bars across 16 sections: 144 keep time, 69 are fills, 4 are stops and 59 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-31.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART Y
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART S12
OUTRO
11 groovesEIS12YT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tunnel Of Love?

135 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 Tunnel Of Love hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

293 bars, about 9:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Tunnel Of Love?

15 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 18, 20, 32, 40, 48, 55 and 63 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 293 BARS ANALYSED
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