Share Our Open Tears · Soot

63 bars, 3:36, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 25-27, and 3 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 70 BPM
SHARE OUR OPEN TEARS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 3 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 34-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 6 sections: 43 keep time, 9 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-51.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Share Our Open Tears?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Share Our Open Tears hard to play on drums?

56 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Share Our Open Tears?

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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