Tear Away · Drowning Pool

129 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-28, 46-47 and 50-51, and 14 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 133 BPM
TEAR AWAY · BARS 22-23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 29, 45, 57, 61, 77, 89 and 12 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 13 sections: 89 keep time, 18 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-76.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDHMCS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tear Away?

133 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 Tear Away hard to play on drums?

55 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Tear Away?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 29, 45, 57, 61, 77, 89 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Drowning Pool drum parts

EVERY DROWNING POOL CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →