Tearing your life away · Guilt Trip

118 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59, 61 and 63, and 6 more places -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
TEARING YOUR LIFE AWAY · BAR 67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 4, 5, 12, 13, 21, 25 and 37 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 12 sections: 50 keep time, 43 are fills, 6 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-20.

PART S1
PART H
PART J
PART N
PART J
PART Z
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
9 groovesSJAANZ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tearing your life away?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Tearing your life away 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Tearing your life away?

20 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 4, 5, 12, 13, 21, 25 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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