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Tupilak · Russian Circles

EXERCISE 17 OF 117
Fill at bar 32 and 80 (a small one)
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
PART J
PART W
PART AC
PART AG
CHORUS
PART AO
18 groovesALAOJAGC+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 29
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 11
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tupilak on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
6:12
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-88, ride through bars 89-92, snare through bars 93-118, toms through bars 119-120 and hi-hat through bars 121-138, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 128, 132 and 136, and 4 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    140          141
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a
CC |x---x---x---|x---x---|
SD |--------x---|--------|
BD |x-----------|--x---x-|
Tupilak -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 95 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 -- AO, AC -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part D and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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