Crack Rock (AI) · Frank Ocean

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-24, 28-30 and 57-59, and 1 more place -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
CRACK ROCK (AI) · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 85.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 9 sections: 64 keep time, 1 is a fill and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-32.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDCBS4S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crack Rock (AI)?

90 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 Crack Rock (AI) hard to play on drums?

55 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Crack Rock (AI)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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