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Teargas · Katatonia

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove B -- Intro
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COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Teargas on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, ride through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-64 and snare through bars 65-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 33-35, and 4 more places -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-----------------------|
HH |----o-------o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x-----x---x-x---------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---------x---x-----------|
Teargas -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 44, 56 and 64.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-36 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-33 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-60 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Teargas?

90 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 Teargas hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Teargas?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 44, 56 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED