Tearing Yourself To Pieces · Blaze

168 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-12, 15-21 and 23-29, and 15 more places -- 67.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TEARING YOURSELF TO PIECES · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 22, 30, 37, 38, 46 and 9 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 15 sections: 113 keep time, 15 are fills, 26 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-21.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCGS1S2S12+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tearing Yourself To Pieces?

140 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 Tearing Yourself To Pieces hard to play on drums?

52 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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.

How many fills are in Tearing Yourself To Pieces?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 22, 30, 37, 38, 46 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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