Teardrop · Massive Attack

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-52, 65-70 and 82-85 -- 61.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 77 BPM
TEARDROP · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 6 sections: 95 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-52.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Teardrop?

77 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 Teardrop hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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