Torn To Pieces · Pop Evil

49 bars, 3:13, at 61 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

RockAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
61 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-13 and 18-24 -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 61 BPM
TORN TO PIECES · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 37, 39, 45 and 1 more.

LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 49
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 4 sections: 39 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

PART B
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Torn To Pieces?

61 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Torn To Pieces 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid 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 To Pieces?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 37, 39, 45 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 49 BARS ANALYSED
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