cry about it · Fried By Fluoride

68 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-9, 27-34 and 53-67 -- 46.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
CRY ABOUT IT · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 26 and 52.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 5 sections: 59 keep time, 3 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-49.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesBES4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is cry about it?

150 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 cry about it hard to play on drums?

50 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in cry about it?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 26 and 52.

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