Tears Of The Dragon · Bruce Dickinson

121 bars, 6:37, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
6:37
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-14, 32-39 and 73-88, and 2 more places -- 41.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 71 BPM
TEARS OF THE DRAGON · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 56 and 100.

LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 13 sections: 91 keep time, 2 are fills, 8 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-120.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART K
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART S
OUTRO
10 groovesDFKJP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tears Of The Dragon?

71 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Tears Of The Dragon hard to play on drums?

40 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 6:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Of The Dragon?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 56 and 100.

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