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Tears Are Falling · KISS

EXERCISE 12 OF 16
Join Part C to Outro (bars 67-69)
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0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tears Are Falling on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
45/100

The time is kept on the toms the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-27, 41-55 and 69-87, and 1 more place -- 55.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Tears Are Falling -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 40, 56, 88 and 92.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 25-57 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Tears Are Falling?

124 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 Tears Are Falling hard to play on drums?

45 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Tears Are Falling?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 40, 56, 88 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED