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Tears on the Moon · I Promised The World

EXERCISE 9 OF 41
Groove B -- Part B
24 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tears on the Moon on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
80/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-17, ride through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-37, silence through bars 38-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-57, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21                               22
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-------xx--x---xx--x-|x-----x---x-----xxxx----xxxx--x-|
Tears on the Moon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 8-23 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tears on the Moon?

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 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?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED