Cruel To Be Kind · Nick Lowe

112 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-20, 37-46 and 71-81 -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
CRUEL TO BE KIND · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 10, 22, 35, 47, 107 and 2 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 13 sections: 84 keep time, 8 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-85.

PART B
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART N
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFNIPK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cruel To Be Kind?

130 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 To Be Kind hard to play on drums?

55 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 Cruel To Be Kind?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 10, 22, 35, 47, 107 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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