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Tear in my Heart · twenty one pilots

EXERCISE 32 OF 46
Fill at bar 57 (a small one)
75 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART M
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDFMLC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tear in my Heart on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-42, hi-hat through bars 43-58, kick and crashes through bars 59-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-66, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15-17 and 27, and 5 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x-x-|
Tear in my Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 2, 18, 26, 57, 78, 83 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- F, A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-37 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-83 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-55 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tear in my Heart?

120 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 in my Heart hard to play on drums?

50 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 in my Heart?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 2, 18, 26, 57, 78, 83 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED