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When A Blind Man Cries · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove E -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART J
PART T
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesETAOJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When A Blind Man Cries on drums

81 bars, 4:59, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-31, ride through bars 32-38, hi-hat through bars 39-47, ride through bars 48-54 and toms through bars 55-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12 and 16, and 5 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----------x-----|
When A Blind Man Cries -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 7, 11, 18, 19, 23 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-32 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part T and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is When A Blind Man Cries?

65 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?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 7, 11, 18, 19, 23 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED