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Torn · Poison The Well

EXERCISE 7 OF 55
Fill at bar 4 (a small one)
30 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
PART P
PART W
PART X
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDHPLX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Torn on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
70/100

ride through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-41 and toms through bars 42-43, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 18 and 22, and 3 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    74
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x---x-----x-----x-|
BD |x-----x---x-----x---x-x---------|
Torn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 12, 15, 16, 19, 23 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Torn?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 12, 15, 16, 19, 23 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED