Crawler · Ribcage Grenade

31 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 138 BPM, 1:22 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
31
LENGTH
1:22
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-17 and 32-38 -- 39.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
CRAWLER · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 22.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 6 sections: 31 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART J
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesS6EBJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crawler?

138 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Crawler hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

31 bars, about 1:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Crawler?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 22.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 31 BARS ANALYSED
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