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Cryin' · Aerosmith

EXERCISE 3 OF 27
5-bar fill at bar 25
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0 / 27 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cryin' on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, silence through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, ride through bars 18-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-41, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x-----------|
Cryin' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- G, J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-14 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-46 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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