ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All The Tears on drums

141 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 203 BPM, 3:38 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 203 BPM
TIME: 6/4
BARS: 141
LENGTH: 3:38
DIFFICULTY: 83/100

ride through bars 1-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-21, ride through bars 22-50, kick and crashes through bars 51-54, snare through bars 55-62 and toms through bars 63-73, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 17 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
CC |------------------------x-----------------------|
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-------------------------|
HH |----------------------------------------o-------|
SD |--------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----------------------|

All The Tears -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 71, 72, 73, 93, 94 and 105.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 13 minutes.
Through Part H and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Bars 43-62 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
and 9 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is All The Tears?

203 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is All The Tears hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 All The Tears?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 71, 72, 73, 93, 94 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED