← SONGS

Tracks Of My Tears · Linda Ronstadt

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove C -- Outro
0 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 55 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tracks Of My Tears on drums

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

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-73.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Tracks Of My Tears -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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