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Tunnel Of Love v2 · Dire Straits

EXERCISE 17 OF 72
Groove L
174 / 283 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tunnel Of Love v2 on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
283
LENGTH
8:03
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-23, toms through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-102, kick and crashes through bars 103-107 and hi-hat through bars 108-180, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Tunnel Of Love v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 36-93 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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