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For Cryin’ Out Loud! · FINNEAS

EXERCISE 18 OF 21
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 74-76)
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PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play For Cryin’ Out Loud! on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 1-67, toms through bars 68-69, hi-hat through bars 70-71, toms through bars 72-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 20 and 22, and 11 more places -- 55.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
For Cryin’ Out Loud! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 51, 75 and 83.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-76 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is For Cryin’ Out Loud!?

93 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 For Cryin’ Out Loud! hard to play on drums?

41 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 For Cryin’ Out Loud!?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 51, 75 and 83.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED