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Tear Away · Drowning Pool

EXERCISE 7 OF 48
Groove B -- Part B
74 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART C, PART H
COUNT-IN
PART B
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tear Away on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-45 and snare through bars 46-61, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22               23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x---x-xx|
BD |x-x---x-----x-x-|--x-x--xx-x-----|
Tear Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-86 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 93-98 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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