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Black Tears · Heaven Shall Burn

EXERCISE 5 OF 22
Groove I -- Outro 2
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0 / 22 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Tears on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-21, toms through bars 22-29 and snare through bars 30-70.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 18-20, and 4 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x-----x-------xx----x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-x-----x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x---x----xx-x-----|
Black 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 1, 57, 59, 61, 67 and 69.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Tears?

91 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 Black Tears hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Black Tears?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 57, 59, 61, 67 and 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED