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Tunnel Of Love · Dire Straits

EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove E -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tunnel Of Love on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
293
LENGTH
9:07
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-19, hi-hat through bars 20-56, ride through bars 57-62, hi-hat through bars 63-64 and ride through bars 65-68, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Tunnel Of Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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, I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 53-65 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 96-104 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part Y -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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