Crying In The Rain · Whitesnake

119 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 5:27 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 28 and 30-31, and 3 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
CRYING IN THE RAIN · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 27, 29, 32 and 12 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 25-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 12 sections: 46 keep time, 18 are fills, 1 is a stop and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART B
PART K
PART I
PART K
PART I
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS12IKFZ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crying In The Rain?

130 BPM, in 6/4, 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 In The Rain hard to play on drums?

63 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Crying In The Rain?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 27, 29, 32 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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