Tear · Red Hot Chili Peppers

165 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 5:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 19 more places -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 131 BPM
TEAR · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 88, 142 and 165.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 165
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 18 sections: 135 keep time, 4 are fills, 12 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-39.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBEGAS10+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tear?

131 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 hard to play on drums?

53 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 88, 142 and 165.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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