Tush · ZZ Top

80 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-31 and 33-43, and 3 more places -- 88.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 144 BPM
TUSH · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 80
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 3 sections: 76 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-78.

OUTRO
3 groovesCAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tush?

144 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 Tush hard to play on drums?

54 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Tush?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

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