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Crackerman · Stone Temple Pilots

EXERCISE 5 OF 14
Groove F -- Part F
98 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crackerman on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-117.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-15, 18-39 and 42-63, and 2 more places -- 81.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Crackerman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 17, 41, 71 and 109.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Crackerman?

148 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 Crackerman hard to play on drums?

63 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 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 Crackerman?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 17, 41, 71 and 109.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED