Cries of Pleasure, Heavenly Pain · Gulch

68 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-4, 7-8 and 11-12, and 2 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
CRIES OF PLEASURE, HEAVENLY PAIN · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 18, 34, 37, 38, 47 and 5 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 9 sections: 41 keep time, 11 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-29.

PART A
PART B
PART F
PART L
PART Q
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesVAFQR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cries of Pleasure, Heavenly Pain?

110 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 Cries of Pleasure, Heavenly Pain hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Cries of Pleasure, Heavenly Pain?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 18, 34, 37, 38, 47 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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