Cry · Benson Boone

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-23, 25-31 and 43, and 1 more place -- 49.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
CRY · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 10 sections: 51 keep time and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-34.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART F
PART H
7 groovesBFS1HS6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cry?

90 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 hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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.

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