Tears In A Vial · Megadeth

185 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-33 and 43-45, and 11 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TEARS IN A VIAL · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 19, 20, 41, 42, 64, 71 and 12 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 16 sections: 133 keep time, 18 are fills, 15 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 146-160.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART X
OUTRO
12 groovesFIYXD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tears In A Vial?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 In A Vial hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 In A Vial?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 19, 20, 41, 42, 64, 71 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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