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I Want My Tears Back · Nightwish

EXERCISE 28 OF 59
Fill at bar 64 (a small one)
137 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART Q
PART D
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART K
CHORUS 4
PART Q
CHORUS 5
PART AA
PART AE
OUTRO
10 groovesBQKDAA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Want My Tears Back on drums

178 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, toms through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-56, snare through bars 57-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-104, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 41-43 and 45-46, and 17 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
I Want My Tears Back -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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, K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-25 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-41 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-76 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Want My Tears Back?

140 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 I Want My Tears Back hard to play on drums?

57 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 I Want My Tears Back?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED