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Crashing Foreign Cars · Helmet

EXERCISE 7 OF 57
Groove E -- Part E
64 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesFBSCE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crashing Foreign Cars on drums

109 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50, ride through bars 51-65, snare through bars 66-74 and ride through bars 75-90, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 21 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Crashing Foreign Cars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-107 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-54 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Crashing Foreign Cars?

195 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 Crashing Foreign Cars hard to play on drums?

62 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Crashing Foreign Cars?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED