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Make You Cry · Title Fight

EXERCISE 5 OF 33
Groove J (a two-bar phrase)
50 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGMS1BP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Make You Cry on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, ride through bars 26-29, snare through bars 30-35 and toms through bars 36-37, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22-24, and 8 more places -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- G, M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-38 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-62 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-93 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Make You Cry?

131 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 Make You Cry hard to play on drums?

57 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?

93 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Make You Cry?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED