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Torn wide open [Yearning: The unbeautiful after] · Boundaries

EXERCISE 5 OF 43
Groove C
34 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE INTRO, CHORUS 2
INTRO
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAKWOU+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Torn wide open [Yearning: The unbeautiful after] on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-16, silence through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-26, snare through bars 27-29 and toms through bars 30-34, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 10 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--------------------------------------------|
Torn wide open [Yearning: The unbeautiful after] -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 30, 31, 32, 39, 46, 54 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- A, U -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Intro and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-20 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Break 3 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-36 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Torn wide open [Yearning: The unbeautiful after]?

135 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 wide open [Yearning: The unbeautiful after] hard to play on drums?

62 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?

80 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 wide open [Yearning: The unbeautiful after]?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 30, 31, 32, 39, 46, 54 and 1 more.

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