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Torn · Hands Like Houses

Torn · Hands Like Houses
EXERCISE 20 OF 43
Join Part H to Chorus (bars 23-25)
56 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Torn on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-30, toms through bars 31-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-38, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Torn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- H, J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part H -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 46-63 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-85 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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