Tears to Cry · Gotthard

70 bars, 3:48, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 39-41, and 6 more places -- 41.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 73 BPM
TEARS TO CRY · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 23, 38, 42 and 7 more.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 5 sections: 50 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-36.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tears to Cry?

73 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 to Cry 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Tears to Cry?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 23, 38, 42 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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