Tv Dinners · ZZ Top

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-15 and 17-27, and 8 more places -- 86% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
TV DINNERS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 95.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 95
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars: 92 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-36.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tv Dinners?

100 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 Tv Dinners hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Tv Dinners?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 95.

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