Cracker Island · Gorillaz ft. Thundercat

97 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17-19, and 14 more places -- 60.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CRACKER ISLAND · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 68 and 88.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 8 sections: 84 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-65.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cracker Island?

120 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 Cracker Island hard to play on drums?

36 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Cracker Island?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 68 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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