Tracks Of My Tears · Linda Ronstadt

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-12, 14-20 and 22, and 7 more places -- 79.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 92 BPM
TRACKS OF MY TEARS · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 13, 23, 65, 72 and 73.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 72-73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 2 sections: 64 keep time, 5 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-64.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tracks Of My Tears?

92 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 Tracks Of My Tears hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Tracks Of My Tears?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 13, 23, 65, 72 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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