Tunnels · Dreadknaw

82 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-8, and 3 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
TUNNELS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 21, 25 and 17 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 9 sections: 49 keep time, 23 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-54.

CHORUS
PART G
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBOGTIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tunnels?

114 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 Tunnels hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 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 Tunnels?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 21, 25 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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