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Cries of Pleasure, Heavenly Pain · Gulch

EXERCISE 9 OF 40
Fill at bar 16 (a small one)
34 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cries of Pleasure, Heavenly Pain on drums

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

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-14, snare through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-30, snare through bars 31-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-56, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    3                                                4
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
SD |x-----------x---x---x---x-----------x---x---x---|x-----------x---x---x---x-----------------------|
T2 |------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------x---------------|
FT |------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------x-------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------x-----------|
Cries of Pleasure, Heavenly Pain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B, F -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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