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Tears Don't Fall · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 10 OF 45
Groove J -- Part J (a two-bar phrase)
74 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART V
PART W
PART X
PART T
PART V
PART J
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBTVJM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tears Don't Fall on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
7:39
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-25, toms through bars 26-29, snare through bars 30-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-46, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9                                10
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxxxxxxx|
Tears Don't Fall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T, V -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 24-42 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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