When A Good Man Cries · CMAT

124 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-24, 26 and 28, and 16 more places -- 54% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 113 BPM
WHEN A GOOD MAN CRIES · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 74, 80, 82, 88, 106, 110 and 6 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 124
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 4 sections: 108 keep time and 12 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-73.

CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When A Good Man Cries?

113 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 When A Good Man Cries hard to play on drums?

48 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 Good Man Cries?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 74, 80, 82, 88, 106, 110 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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