TEARS · ENTH

161 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 46-52, and 5 more places -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 185 BPM
TEARS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 25 and 27 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 15 sections: 89 keep time, 34 are fills, 18 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 136-145.

PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AF
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGNAFOB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is TEARS?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is TEARS hard to play on drums?

55 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in TEARS?

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 25 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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