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crying · Static Dress

EXERCISE 18 OF 60
Groove Q -- Part Q
49 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART G
PART F
PART Q
PART K
CHORUS
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesACS11FLA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play crying on drums

123 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40, snare through bars 41-59 and toms through bars 60-61, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 10 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-x---x-|
crying -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 28, 38, 40 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- L, K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-93 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is crying?

157 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 hard to play on drums?

49 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 28, 38, 40 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED