Your Tongue Ties · Sianvar

175 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 6:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
6:36
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-40, 43 and 153-155, and 2 more places -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
YOUR TONGUE TIES · BAR 153
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 42 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 31-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 18 sections: 83 keep time, 48 are fills, 13 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

PART G
PART P
CHORUS
PART S6
PART AQ
PART BD
PART BN
15 groovesYBDGBNP+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Your Tongue Ties?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Your Tongue Ties hard to play on drums?

64 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 6:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Your Tongue Ties?

19 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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