Tunnel Of Love v2 · Dire Straits

283 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 8:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
283
LENGTH
8:03
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-35 and 37-43, and 40 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
TUNNEL OF LOVE V2 · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 61, 69, 81 and 32 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

283 bars across 16 sections: 184 keep time, 38 are fills and 47 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-60.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
PART H
OUTRO
8 groovesEHS13S1R+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tunnel Of Love v2?

138 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 v2 hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

283 bars, about 8:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 v2?

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 61, 69, 81 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 283 BARS ANALYSED
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