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Twilight Tavern · Ensiferum

EXERCISE 19 OF 89
Groove M -- Part M
109 / 202 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
CHORUS
PART M
PART M
BREAK
PART M
PART M
PART M
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDMFJL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 18
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Twilight Tavern on drums

202 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 5:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
90/100

hi-hat through bars 1-13, ride through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-55, snare through bars 56-62 and toms through bars 63-65, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 38-41 and 46-50, and 3 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 13, 20, 21, 25, 29 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 32-45 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Twilight Tavern?

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 Twilight Tavern hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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 Twilight Tavern?

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 13, 20, 21, 25, 29 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED