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Crying For Death · Morbid Saint

Crying For Death · Morbid Saint
EXERCISE 3 OF 53
Groove P -- Part P
45 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
CHORUS
PART D
PART J
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART P
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAJPDSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crying For Death on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
100/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-112 and kick and crashes through bars 113-114.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 17 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Crying For Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Crying For Death?

122 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Crying For Death hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Crying For Death?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED