Let Her Cry · Hootie & the Blowfish

77 bars, 4:24, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 21 more places -- 36.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
LET HER CRY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 13, 29, 33, 41, 45 and 6 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 10 sections: 42 keep time, 12 are fills, 5 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-25.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCGS8S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let Her Cry?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Let Her Cry hard to play on drums?

45 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Let Her Cry?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 13, 29, 33, 41, 45 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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