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Tunnels · Dreadknaw

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 52 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBOGTIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tunnels on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, snare through bars 22-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-33, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x--x--|
Tunnels -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-32 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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