Sorry Doesn't Cut It · Behind Crimson Eyes

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-25, 39-41 and 43-45, and 5 more places -- 37.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
SORRY DOESN'T CUT IT · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 17, 34, 86 and 87.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 86-87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 8 sections: 71 keep time, 4 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-85.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sorry Doesn't Cut It?

88 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 Sorry Doesn't Cut It hard to play on drums?

51 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sorry Doesn't Cut It?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 17, 34, 86 and 87.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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