Tired of Tears · My Dying Bride

266 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 8:35 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
8:35
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 94, 98 and 102, and 22 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
TIRED OF TEARS · BAR 123
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 37, 45 and 39 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 16 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

266 bars across 7 sections: 90 keep time, 45 are fills, 123 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 216-222.

PART F
PART K
CHORUS
OUTRO
6 groovesNFWKH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tired of Tears?

105 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 Tired of Tears hard to play on drums?

45 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

266 bars, about 8:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Tired of Tears?

9 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 37, 45 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 266 BARS ANALYSED
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