Cry To Me · Solomon Burke

73 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 6-20 and 22-32, and 1 more place -- 56.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
CRY TO ME · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 73.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 6 sections: 65 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-32.

CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADGFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cry To Me?

110 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 To Me hard to play on drums?

33 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Cry To Me?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 73.

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