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No More Tears · Avery Anna

No More Tears · Avery Anna
EXERCISE 22 OF 38
Groove P -- Part P
66 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART P
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFMRS1A+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No More Tears on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-26, toms through bars 27-36, snare through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-60 and snare through bars 61-62, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45 and 47-59 -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    48
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
No More Tears -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 35, 36, 46, 71, 72 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- M, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-25 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 59-77 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is No More Tears?

102 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 No More Tears hard to play on drums?

53 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 No More Tears?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 35, 36, 46, 71, 72 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED