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Tears Dont Fall (Drop D) · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
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 Dont Fall (Drop D) 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 Dont Fall (Drop D) -- 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.
  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 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.

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