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The Cry Of Mankind · My Dying Bride

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART B
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFCBGS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Cry Of Mankind on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:46 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
6:46
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-40, silence through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-48 and silence through bars 49-51, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 45-47 and 53-55, and 24 more places -- 54.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    37
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |g---g---g---g---g---g---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x---x-x---x-----x-x---x-|
The Cry Of Mankind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-59 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Break 3 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Cry Of Mankind?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Cry Of Mankind hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 6:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED