Tears Don't Fall · Bullet For My Valentine

156 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 7:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / HardcoreUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
7:39
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 30-32, and 6 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 81 BPM
TEARS DON'T FALL · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 25, 29, 33, 46, 50 and 9 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 85-86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 18 sections: 97 keep time, 15 are fills, 7 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 131-143.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART V
PART W
PART X
PART T
PART V
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBTVJM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tears Don't Fall?

81 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 Tears Don't Fall hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 7:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Tears Don't Fall?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 25, 29, 33, 46, 50 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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