Cruel · Alternative Competition 3

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 30-32, and 5 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
CRUEL · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 29, 54, 74, 76, 77, 78 and 1 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 76-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 11 sections: 63 keep time, 7 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-28.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCHMFA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cruel?

100 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 Cruel hard to play on drums?

54 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Cruel?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 29, 54, 74, 76, 77, 78 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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