Crawl · Alkaline Trio

149 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 45-51, and 3 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 146 BPM
CRAWL · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 4, 14, 16, 24, 32 and 17 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 14 sections: 109 keep time, 23 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-13.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART V
PART W
10 groovesDAKFM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crawl?

146 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 Crawl hard to play on drums?

60 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Crawl?

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 4, 14, 16, 24, 32 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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