Torn Apart · Avatar

140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 5:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-10, 27-33 and 35-41, and 5 more places -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 97 BPM
TORN APART · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 114, 122, 130, 139 and 140.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 139-140 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 13 sections: 100 keep time, 5 are fills, 14 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-75.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART Q
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBTFHQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Torn Apart?

97 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 Torn Apart hard to play on drums?

38 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Torn Apart?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 114, 122, 130, 139 and 140.

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