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Torn · Natalie Imbruglia

Torn · Natalie Imbruglia
EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove F -- Verse
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0 / 31 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
PART H
VERSE 3
VERSE 4
6 groovesFCDBH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Torn on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
73/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-28, 30-32 and 45-50, and 9 more places -- 46.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxo-xxxxxxo-xxxx|
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

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 64 and 83.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-17 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-42 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-56 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-70 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Torn?

100 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?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 64 and 83.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED