Tunnel Of Love Ver. 2 · Dire Straits

272 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 8:03 of playing, on crash, ride, 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
272
LENGTH
8:03
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 21-26 and 29-34, and 10 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
TUNNEL OF LOVE VER. 2 · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 13, 15, 19, 35, 43, 51 and 40 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

272 bars across 19 sections: 183 keep time, 46 are fills, 2 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 183-206.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AC
CHORUS 3
PART AA
PART B
PART N
12 groovesFACBAAP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tunnel Of Love Ver. 2?

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 Ver. 2 hard to play on drums?

59 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

272 bars, about 8:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 22 sittings, about 28 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 Ver. 2?

26 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 13, 15, 19, 35, 43, 51 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 272 BARS ANALYSED
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