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Cry For You · Andy Timmons

Cry For You · Andy Timmons
EXERCISE 26 OF 31
Fill at bar 116 (a small one)
123 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAGJFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cry For You on drums

125 bars, 6:45, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
6:45
DIFFICULTY
57/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-41 and 50-61 -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |-xx--xxx-xx--xx-|
SD |----x-----------|
T1 |------------x---|
BD |x--x-------x----|
Cry For You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 49, 73, 81, 82, 83, 84 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 68-74 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Cry For You?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Cry For You hard to play on drums?

57 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?

125 bars, about 6:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Cry For You?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 49, 73, 81, 82, 83, 84 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED