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Cruel To Be Kind · Nick Lowe

Cruel To Be Kind · Nick Lowe
EXERCISE 14 OF 51
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 9-11)
75 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART B
PART C
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cruel To Be Kind on drums

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

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-28, toms through bars 29-31, hi-hat through bars 32-53, toms through bars 54-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-66, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Cruel To Be Kind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- F, N -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-53 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-73 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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