Torn · Hands Like Houses

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 41-45 and 47-48, and 4 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 97 BPM
TORN · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 24, 26, 28 and 23 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 12 sections: 39 keep time, 29 are fills, 4 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-23.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJHCADS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Torn?

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 hard to play on drums?

50 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?

89 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Torn?

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 24, 26, 28 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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