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Tired of Tears · My Dying Bride

EXERCISE 16 OF 45
Join Part F to Part H (bars 78-80)
182 / 266 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART H
PART F
PART H
PART K
CHORUS
OUTRO
6 groovesNFWKH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tired of Tears on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
8:35
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-89, hi-hat through bars 90-152, toms through bars 153-174, snare through bars 175-177 and hi-hat through bars 178-266.

The beat

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.

    123
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-|
Tired of Tears -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 76-91 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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