No Time To Cry · Cradle Of Filth

103 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

149 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

103

LENGTH

2:46

DIFFICULTY

59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-52, kick and crashes through bars 53-55, snare through bars 56-71 and ride through bars 72-77, and 2 more changes after that.

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 44, 48, 56 and 4 more.

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E, G -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
2. Through Part A and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
3. Bars 10-33 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
6. Through Part J and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Bars 69-90 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.