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Tear · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 19 OF 33
Join Part E to Break 2 (bars 106-108)
145 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
BREAK 2
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBEGAS10+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tear on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 3-40, ride through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-74, ride through bars 75-82, hi-hat through bars 83-88 and ride through bars 89-104, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |X-x-X-x-x-x-X-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Tear -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-92 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 106-128 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 125-153 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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