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.

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

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

6/4

BARS

119

LENGTH

5:27

DIFFICULTY

63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-64, toms through bars 65-66, ride through bars 67-81 and silence through bars 82-119.

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.

    28
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x-----------x---x-------x-----------x---|

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

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
4. Bars 1-35 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Bars 6-27 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Bars 26-42 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 45-58 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
8. Through Part F and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.