Tears on the Moon (ACTUAL) · I Promised The World

76 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 82 BPM, 3:14 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23 and 27-29 -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
TEARS ON THE MOON (ACTUAL) · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 19, 20, 21 and 10 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 19-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 10 sections: 29 keep time, 16 are fills and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-8.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART S
PART U
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesS5JGSU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tears on the Moon (ACTUAL)?

82 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 on the Moon (ACTUAL) hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 on the Moon (ACTUAL)?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 19, 20, 21 and 10 more.

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