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Torn · Creed

EXERCISE 25 OF 54
2-bar fill at bar 131
166 / 217 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART Z
OUTRO
8 groovesDBCZN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Torn on drums

217 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 5:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-88, hi-hat through bars 89-104 and ride through bars 105-120, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 23 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Torn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 48, 56, 88 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- D, B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 28-52 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 82-122 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 119-165 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Z -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Torn?

146 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 hard to play on drums?

48 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?

217 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Torn?

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 48, 56, 88 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED