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cry about it · Fried By Fluoride

EXERCISE 14 OF 14
Play the whole song with the record
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBES4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play cry about it on drums

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

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-26, snare through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-52 and snare through bars 53-68.

The beat

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.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x--x--x-xxxx|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x-----x-------|
cry about it -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-51 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED