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Too Many Tears - wtv · Whitesnake

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove E -- Part E
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COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Too Many Tears - wtv on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-102.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-21, 23-28 and 35-36, and 13 more places -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Too Many Tears - wtv -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 29, 37, 45, 53, 61 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- E, C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-37 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-84 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Too Many Tears - wtv?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Too Many Tears - wtv hard to play on drums?

46 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 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 Too Many Tears - wtv?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 29, 37, 45, 53, 61 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED