CRADLE OF FILTH · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in No Time To Cry

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-32 and 57-71, and 1 more place -- 36.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
59/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 149 BPM
NO TIME TO CRY · BAR 17

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 59 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 112 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, and nothing else. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 112, 130 and 149 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does No Time To Cry use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 149 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 36.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 17-23, 25-32, 57-71 and 79-86. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.

Is the beat in No Time To Cry hard?

34 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED