When A Blind Man Cries · Deep Purple

57 bars, 3:34, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 28 and 32-33, and 4 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 64 BPM
WHEN A BLIND MAN CRIES · BAR 33
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 22, 30, 34, 38, 42, 44 and 1 more.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 7 sections: 40 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-13.

PART E
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHJEKC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When A Blind Man Cries?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is When A Blind Man Cries hard to play on drums?

64 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 When A Blind Man Cries?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 22, 30, 34, 38, 42, 44 and 1 more.

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