Tears Of Ashes · Dear Whoever

18 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 0:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
18
LENGTH
0:39
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11 and 13-15 -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
TEARS OF ASHES · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 17 and 18.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 16-18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

18 bars across 2 sections: 11 keep time, 3 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-15.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tears Of Ashes?

110 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 Of Ashes hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

18 bars, about 0:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Tears Of Ashes?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 17 and 18.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 18 BARS ANALYSED
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