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Share Our Open Tears · Soot

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 21 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Share Our Open Tears on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-49, toms through bars 50-53, hi-hat through bars 54-61 and toms through bars 62-63.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|
HH |--x-------------|
SD |----x-------x---|
T1 |-------x--x---x-|
T2 |x---x-x--x------|
FT |--x---x--x----x-|
BD |x---x-x--x--x---|
Share Our Open Tears -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C, A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-25 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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