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When A Good Man Cries · CMAT

EXERCISE 16 OF 24
Groove L
119 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When A Good Man Cries on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
48/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-74, ride through bars 75-92, hi-hat through bars 93-104 and ride through bars 105-124.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
When A Good Man Cries -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B, G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Bars 75-108 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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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