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Who's Crying Now · Journey

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove F -- Outro 2
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0 / 12 PASSED · 44 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART C
BREAK
PART C
PART S5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCS5S3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Who's Crying Now on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-20, silence through bars 21-38, hi-hat through bars 39-55, silence through bars 56-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-88, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    91
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |------x-x-----x-|
Who's Crying Now -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- F, C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 19-80 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED