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Crack Rock Steady · Choking Victim

EXERCISE 17 OF 51
Groove N
91 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
PART E
CHORUS
PART U
PART Z
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART Z
OUTRO 2
5 groovesRZEUOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crack Rock Steady on drums

149 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-52, snare through bars 53-68, hi-hat through bars 69-100, snare through bars 101-116, hi-hat through bars 117-130 and toms through bars 131-132, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-59, 61-67 and 101-107, and 1 more place -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    53
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |------------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Crack Rock Steady -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- Z, R -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-51 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-47 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Crack Rock Steady?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Crack Rock Steady hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Crack Rock Steady?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED