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Tearing Yourself To Pieces · Blaze

EXERCISE 21 OF 31
Groove N (a two-bar phrase)
156 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tearing Yourself To Pieces on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-30, ride through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54, ride through bars 55-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-94, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x-x-----x-----|
Tearing Yourself To Pieces -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-32 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-39 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 77-106 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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