Tearful · Zero Degrees

47 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 1:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
1:27
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-11 and 22-23 -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
TEARFUL · BARS 6-7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 5, 12, 13, 21, 33 and 4 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

47 bars across 7 sections: 30 keep time, 10 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-11.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEUIBR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tearful?

130 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 Tearful hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

47 bars, about 1:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Tearful?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 5, 12, 13, 21, 33 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 47 BARS ANALYSED
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