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Tear In My Heart · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART J
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesECFKA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tear In My Heart on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

54 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
83
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-37, silence through bars 38-40, toms through bars 41-42, snare through bars 43-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-58, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16 and 26-28, and 4 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
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

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 11, 17, 25, 57, 65, 82 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-38 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-54 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-58 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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?

54 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 In My Heart?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 11, 17, 25, 57, 65, 82 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED