Cryin' · Aerosmith

92 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 106 BPM, 5:06 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 30-32 and 34-36, and 1 more place -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 106 BPM
CRYIN' · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 25, 26, 27 and 16 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 25-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 7 sections: 31 keep time, 22 are fills and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-24.

PART B
BREAK
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesJS7GS2BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cryin'?

106 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Cryin' hard to play on drums?

47 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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.

How many fills are in Cryin'?

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 25, 26, 27 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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