Tears Dont Fall (Drop D) · 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.

Under 90 BPM
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 DONT FALL (DROP D) · 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 Dont Fall (Drop D)?

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 Dont Fall (Drop D) 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 Dont Fall (Drop D)?

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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