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Crawler · Ribcage Grenade

Crawler · Ribcage Grenade
EXERCISE 10 OF 19
Run B2 · Part B (bars 18-22)
36 / 63 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART J
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesS6EBJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crawler on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
31
LENGTH
1:22
DIFFICULTY
44/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    10                               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---o-----------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-x-|----x-------x-------x---xxxxxxxx|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----|x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x---x---|
Crawler -- 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 20 and 22.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 23-39 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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