Crying For Help · Penguinband

13 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 0:20 of it without a break -- on crash, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
13
LENGTH
0:20
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12 -- 84.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 155 BPM
CRYING FOR HELP · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 13.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 13
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

13 bars: 12 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crying For Help?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Crying For Help 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

13 bars, about 0:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Crying For Help?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 13.

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