Made Of Tears · Joe Satriani

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 5:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 51 more places -- 47.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
MADE OF TEARS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 24, 40, 48, 56, 80 and 5 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 5 sections: 97 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-76.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Made Of Tears?

96 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 Made Of Tears hard to play on drums?

45 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Made Of Tears?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 24, 40, 48, 56, 80 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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