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Cruel · Alternative Competition 3

EXERCISE 32 OF 34
Play the whole song with the record
85 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 87 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCHMFA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cruel on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
54/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-22, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-xx|
BD |x--x--xx--xx--xx|x--x--xx--xx----|
Cruel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-14 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-75 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-81 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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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