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Cráneo Candente · Hermetica

EXERCISE 3 OF 55
Fill at bar 76 and 140 (a small one)
79 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJTAZFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cráneo Candente on drums

173 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-23, toms through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-90, snare through bars 91-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-94, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-39, 41-43 and 45, and 10 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    29               30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------x---x-|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----x---x-|
BD |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|x-xxx-xxx---xx--|
Cráneo Candente -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 40, 44, 52, 68, 76 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- J, T -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part T and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cráneo Candente?

165 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 Cráneo Candente hard to play on drums?

64 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Cráneo Candente?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 40, 44, 52, 68, 76 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED