Tupilak · Russian Circles

218 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 6:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
6:12
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 32, 44, 48, 52, 56, 57 and 36 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 56-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

218 bars across 18 sections: 104 keep time, 42 are fills, 40 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-25.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
PART J
PART AC
PART AG
CHORUS
PART AO
18 groovesALAOJAGC+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tupilak?

135 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 Tupilak hard to play on drums?

47 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 6:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 95 exercises over 27 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Tupilak?

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 32, 44, 48, 52, 56, 57 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED
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