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Teardrops · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 13 OF 41
Join Part E to Break (bars 23-25)
42 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, BREAK
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBEZABK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Teardrops on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-54, silence through bars 55-57, hi-hat through bars 58-61, silence through bars 62-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-78, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-12, 22-23 and 26-32, and 2 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6                                7
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---o---o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---x-----------x---f---|
BD |x---x---------x---x-x-----------|x-x---x-------x---x-x-----x---x-|
Teardrops -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 33, 37, 41, 44, 45, 58 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-77 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-35 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 30-42 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-55 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part U -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Teardrops?

96 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Teardrops hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Teardrops?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 33, 37, 41, 44, 45, 58 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED