Who's Crying Now · Journey

136 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89-95, 97-103 and 105-111, and 2 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 122 BPM
WHO'S CRYING NOW · BAR 91
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 7 sections: 90 keep time, 1 is a stop and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-136.

PART C
BREAK
PART C
PART S5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCS5S3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Who's Crying Now?

122 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 Who's Crying Now hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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