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Land Of Tears · Pestilence

EXERCISE 25 OF 64
Join Chorus 2 to Part K (bars 56-58)
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PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART Q
PART Z
PART B
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
11 groovesHBKQZ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Land Of Tears on drums

209 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bars 1-17, silence through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-47, snare through bars 48-49, hi-hat through bars 50-57 and ride through bars 58-65, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-41 and 50-56, and 5 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Land Of Tears -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 25, 33, 49, 57, 81, 93 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- H, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-25 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part S3 and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-57 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-69 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and the Break 2 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Land Of Tears?

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

Is Land Of Tears hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 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 Land Of Tears?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 25, 33, 49, 57, 81, 93 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED