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Tunnel Of Love Ver. 2 · Dire Straits

EXERCISE 11 OF 107
Fill at bar 19 (a small one)
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0 / 107 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tunnel Of Love Ver. 2 on drums

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.

59 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
272
LENGTH
8:03
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-15, hi-hat through bars 16-51, ride through bars 52-57, hi-hat through bars 58-59 and ride through bars 60-62, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Tunnel Of Love Ver. 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 80 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 -- F, AC -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-80 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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