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Tears Over Beers · Modern Baseball

EXERCISE 26 OF 45
Groove P
69 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART E
PART G
PART J
PART N
CHORUS
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesOS9US1G+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tears Over Beers on drums

132 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 3:19 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-17, ride through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-43, ride through bars 44-74 and silence through bars 75-92, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44, 46 and 48, and 10 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    62
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x---x---x---|
BD |x---------x-|
Tears Over Beers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 17, 24, 25, 38, 43 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- N, O, U -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-39 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-46 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 53-110 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tears Over Beers?

130 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Over Beers hard to play on drums?

58 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Over Beers?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 17, 24, 25, 38, 43 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED