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Crack Rock (AI) · Frank Ocean

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 22 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crack Rock (AI) on drums

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

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-15, hi-hat through bars 16-30, snare through bars 31-32, silence through bars 33-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-42, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x-xx-xxxx-x-----|
Crack Rock (AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-51 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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