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Crack The Sky · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 9 OF 60
Join Chorus to Part B (bars 13-15)
65 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART Q
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBIMQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crack The Sky on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 3-27, toms through bars 28-36, snare through bars 37-64, ride through bars 65-80, toms through bars 81-89 and ride through bars 90-96, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-13, 19-26 and 49-55 -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7                8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----X-------X---|----X-------X---|
BD |X-------X-----X-|X-------XXX---XX|
Crack The Sky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 14, 18, 28, 32, 36 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-30 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-48 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-60 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Crack The Sky?

123 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 The Sky hard to play on drums?

62 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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.

How many fills are in Crack The Sky?

16 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 14, 18, 28, 32, 36 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED