Crash · 12 Stones

109 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
18/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20, 45-60 and 77-83, and 1 more place -- 94% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
CRASH · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 84 and 109.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 6 sections: 32 keep time, 2 are fills, 33 are stops and 42 are silent.

CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS3S5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crash?

130 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 Crash hard to play on drums?

18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 1 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Crash?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 84 and 109.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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