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Tears In A Vial · Megadeth

EXERCISE 8 OF 75
Groove C
94 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 11
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tears In A Vial on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-34, ride through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-64, ride through bars 65-95 and hi-hat through bars 96-134, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx----x-x-----|
Tears In A Vial -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- F, X -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 8-25 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-74 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-46 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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