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Crash · 12 Stones

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 8 PASSED · 63 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS3S5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crash on drums

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

18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
18/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-20, silence through bars 21-44, snare through bars 45-61, silence through bars 62-76 and snare through bars 77-109.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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