Crawl Away · Tool

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-26 and 28-30, and 4 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
CRAWL AWAY · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 31, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 16 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 14 sections: 53 keep time, 22 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-30.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART W
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHBABFW+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crawl Away?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Away hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 20 sittings, about 23 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 Crawl Away?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 31, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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